Adriaan Blaauw (born April 12 1914) is a Dutch astronomer.
His research has involved star formation, the motions of star clusters and stellar associations, and distance scale.
He won the Bruce Medal in 1989.
The asteroid 2145 Blaauw is named after him.
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