George A. Van Biesbroeck (or Georges-Achille Van Biesbroeck, /vænˈbiːzbrʊk/, January 21, 1880 – February 23, 1974) was a Belgian–American astronomer....

53P/Van Biesbroeck is a periodic comet 7 km in diameter. Its current orbital period is 12.53 years. The comet was discovered by George Van Biesbroeck of...

The George Van Biesbroeck Prize is an award for long-term achievements in the field of astronomy. According to the American Astronomical Society awards...

Van Biesbroeck may refer to: People with the surname Van Biesbroeck George Van Biesbroeck (1880-1974) - astronomer Jules Evarist Van Biesbroeck (1848-1920)-...

Van Biesbroeck is a small lunar impact crater that interrupts the southern rim of the lava-flooded crater Krieger, in the Oceanus Procellarum. The crater...

Observatory in southern Germany. It was named after astronomer George Van Biesbroeck. Van Biesbroeck orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2...

In 1961 the astronomer George Van Biesbroeck published a catalog of low luminosity stars discovered using the 82 in (2.1 m) Otto Struve refractor telescope...

observations to be conducted by other observatories around the globe. George van Biesbroeck made the last known observations of the comet on 31 December 1925...

Scholar. In 2010, the George Van Biesbroeck Prize was awarded to former observatory director, the American Jesuit, Fr. George Coyne. The Church has had...

the literature, and her dedication as a teacher" She received the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 2010, for "many years of dedicated service to the national...

Professor of Astronomy in 1983. Aaronson and Jeremy Mould won the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1981 and the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy in 1984...

Institute of Physics), for outstanding work in astrophysics The George Van Biesbroeck Prize, for outstanding service to astronomy The Annie J. Cannon...

Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1989. Wentzel received 2003 the George Van Biesbroeck Prize. His nomination reads: "For outstanding and sustained contributions...

and was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal in 1980. He received the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1990. In 2022 a biography of Meinel and Marjorie was published...

the Centennial Medal of the Société Astronomique de France, 1987; George Van Biesbroeck Prize, American Astronomical Society, 1993; Leslie Peltier Award...

plate where he recognized it as a comet. In a letter he wrote to George van Biesbroeck, he later recalled: "Had I not made the mistake in guiding, the...

1878 – Vahan Tekeyan, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1948) 1880 – George Van Biesbroeck, Belgian–American astronomer (d. 1974) 1881 – Ernst Fast, Swedish...

10 comets discovered by American astronomer, Leslie C. Peltier. G. van Biesbroeck (1936). "Comet Notes". Popular Astronomy. 44: 389. Bibcode:1936PA.....

comet stayed in the morning twilight for several weeks as it faded. George van Biesbroeck reported that the comet could no longer be detected with certainty...

1787–1867) James Van Allen (United States, 1914–2006) George Van Biesbroeck (Belgium, United States, 1880–1974) Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Netherlands...

Army and an invading force from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Died: George Van Biesbroeck, 94, Belgian-born American astronomer William Knowland, 65, U.S...

Observatory and the University of California Leuschner Observatory. George van Biesbroeck observed the comet on 14 August 1931 and noted it had a tail one...

Taylor, which had been lost since 1915. Further calculations by George van Biesbroeck concluded they were different comets. The 1935 approach was observed...

on X-ray studies of supernova remnants. He was awarded the 2024 George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society. Frederick Downing Seward...

first-discovered quasar 3C 273. In 1988, Hoffleit was awarded the George Van Biesbroeck Prize by the American Astronomical Society for a lifetime of service...

Asteroid 18240 Mould is named in his honour. Mould was awarded the George Van Biesbroeck Prize in 1981 with Marc Aaronson, the Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in...

31 December. The comet was last detected on 20 January 1948 by George Van Biesbroeck. "Comet Names and Designations". International Comet Quarterly....

Walter Goodacre Medal of the British Astronomical Association (1979) George Van Biesbroeck Prize of the American Astronomical Society (1989) Brouwer Award...

approximately 20 kilometers in diameter. The asteroid was discovered by George Van Biesbroeck in 1924, who named it after his daughter Simona. Simona was discovered...

than at Swarthmore, she approached three professors, Otto Struve, George van Biesbroeck, and William Wilson Morgan, asking each for an observational astronomy...