List of Famous people with last name Kapteyn

Henry Kapteyn

First Name Henry

Last Name Kapteyn

Born on January 1, 1963 (age 63)

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Jacobus Kapteyn

First Name Jacobus

Last Name Kapteyn

Died on June 18, 1922

Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was also among the first to suggest the existence of dark matter using stellar velocities as early as 1922.

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