List of Famous people with last name Bos

Willem Hendrik van den Bos

First Name Willem
Last Name Bos
Born on September 25, 1896
Died on March 30, 1974 (aged 77)

Willem Hendrik van den Bos was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941. He discovered nearly 3000 new double stars, made more than 71000 astronomical measurements and compiled a catalogue of Southern hemisphere double stars. He computed the orbits of more than 100 double stars using a method he invented and which later became the accepted standard.

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