Willem Hendrik van den Bos

Willem Hendrik van den Bos

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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Male
Date of Birth
September 25th, 1896
Age
130
Birth Place
Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland
Date of Death
March 30th, 1974
Died Aged
77
Star Sign
Libra
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