Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way...
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The Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope or JKT is a 1-metre optical telescope named for the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922) of the Isaac Newton Group...
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photographic plates Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope - telescope named after Jacobus Kapteyn Kapteyn's Star - star named after Jacobus Kapteyn Kapteyn (crater) - Lunar...
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Attention was first drawn to what is now known as Kapteyn's Star by the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn in 1898. Under the name CPD-44 612 it was included...
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institute is named after its founder, Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, who lived from 1851 to 1922. Jacobus Kapteyn was appointed professor of astronomy and...
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instrument of Kapteyn is a measuring instrument created by the Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn around 1886. Using this instrument, Kapteyn analyzed over...
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chemist and Nobel Laureate Jacobus Kaper (born 1931), biochemist and virologist Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922), Dutch astronomer Jacobus de Kerle (1531–1591),...
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the William Herschel Telescope, the Isaac Newton Telescope, and the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, operated by a collaboration between the UK Science and Technology...
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earlier conjecture. In 1904, studying the proper motions of stars, Jacobus Kapteyn reported that these were not random, as it was believed in that time;...
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Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-N) HEGRA Isaac Newton Telescope Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Liverpool Telescope (2003– ) MAGIC MASCARA Mercator Telescope...
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social activist, and Albertus Kapteyn (1848–1927), an engineer and inventor and older brother of astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn. Her father had moved to London...
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existence of dark matter using stellar velocities was Dutch astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn in 1922. A publication from 1930 points to Swedish Knut Lundmark being...
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instead of fixed sizes steps which would 'sum', was constructed by Jacobus Kapteyn while studying and popularizing the statistics of the log-normal in...
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JKT may refer to: Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope Jakarta, Indonesia Kemayoran Airport, a former airport serving Jakarta Jakarta Time; see Time in Indonesia...
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the 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) Isaac Newton Telescope and the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. The 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT). The...
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Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, and Director of the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. In 2000, Batcheldor served as a student support astronomer...
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his work on opalescence in gases. In 1913, he became assistant to Jacobus Kapteyn at the astronomical laboratory of Groningen University. In 1914, Zernike...
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polarization techniques.” Superluminal motion was first observed in 1902 by Jacobus Kapteyn in the ejecta of the nova GK Persei, which had exploded in 1901. His...
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relatively unchallenged for the next hundred years, with minor refinements. Jacobus Kapteyn introduced motion, density, and luminosity to Herschel's star counts...
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Copernicus Galileo Galilei George Ellery Hale William Herschel Edwin Hubble Jacobus Kapteyn Johannes Kepler Gerard Kuiper Joseph-Louis Lagrange Pierre-Simon Laplace...
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(born 1946), physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (1853–1926), physicist Jacobus Kapteyn (1851–1922), astronomer Willem Hendrik Keesom (1878–1956), physicist...
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Lint, mathematician J. G. ten Houten, phytopathologist and botanist Jacobus Kapteyn, astronomer Izaak Maurits Kolthoff, chemist Jacoba Hol, physical geographer...
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the galaxy. In this research, he adapted the statistical methods of Jacobus Kapteyn to investigate individual clusters in the galaxy. His most important...
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a flat landing surface. The ship was carrying a base plate for the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope, which was being constructed in the Canary Islands. He decided...
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it turned out to be 41 light-years away. Kapteyn's Star, a subdwarf, was discovered in 1897 by Jacobus Kapteyn, the star with the highest known proper...
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ING). The telescopes were to be a 1.0 m (39 in) (which became the Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope), the 2.5 m (98 in) Isaac Newton Telescope which was to be...
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Hiroshi Kaneda (Japan, 1953–) Henry Kandrup (United States, 1955–2003) Jacobus Kapteyn (Netherlands, 1851–1922) Lyudmila Karachkina (Ukraine, 1948–) Ghiyath...
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mathematician – Kaprekar constant, Kaprekar number Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer – Kapteyn's Star Anna Karenina, Russian literary character – Anna...
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Sitter Universe Scientific career Fields Physics Doctoral advisor Jacobus Kapteyn Doctoral students Dirk Brouwer Willem Hendrik van den Bos Signature...
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Aleksandrovich Bredikhin) 806 Gyldenia (Hugo Gyldén) 818 Kapteynia (Jacobus Kapteyn) 819 Barnardiana (Edward Emerson Barnard) 827 Wolfiana (Max Wolf) 834...
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