Dirk Brouwer (September 1 1902 – January 31 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

He received his Ph.D. at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.

He specialized in celestial mechanics and wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.

Awards

• Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1955)
• Bruce Medal (1966)

Named after him

• Asteroid 1746 Brouwer
• Brouwer crater on the Moon (jointly with mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer)
• Dirk Brouwer Award of the American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy

External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce medal
• Awarding of RAS gold medal

Obituaries

• AJ 71 (1966) 76 (one paragraph)
• Obs 86 (1966) 92 (one line)
• PASP 78 (1966) 104 (one line, see also ^*)
• QJRAS 8 (1967) 84

1902 births | 1966 deaths | American astronomers | Dutch Americans | Dutch astronomers

Dirk Brouwer | Dirk Brouwer | 德克·布劳威尔