Nijland, Albertus Antonie
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| born on | 30 October 1868 at 09:00 (= 09:00 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Utrecht, Netherlands, 52n06, 5e07 | ||||
| Timezone | LMT m5e07 (is local mean time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   07°14'   24°10 Asc. 28°33'
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Biography
Dutch astronomer who was professor of astronomy at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, and served as director of the Sterrewacht Sonnenborgh (now the Sterrekundig Instituut) of the university.
In 1901 he participated in a Dutch solar eclipse expedition to Karang Sago, Sumatra.
He was noted for his observations of variable stars, and published a number of papers on the subject in Astronomische Nachrichten, and elsewhere, from 1917 until 1936. He proposed naming variable stars in each constellation using a simple numbering system beginning with V1, V2, ... and so forth. However the double-letter system starting with RR was already in widespread use. As a result, variable stars after QZ were numbered according to Nijland's system beginning with V335.
In 1923 Nijland became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He died on 18 August 1936 in Utrecht. The crater Nijland on the Moon is named after him.
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Source Notes
Sy Scholfield submitted birth certificate no. 1853 from the online Utrecht archives: "des morgens ten negen ure" (nine o'clock in the morning).
Categories
- Vocation : Education : Teacher
- Vocation : Science : Astronomy
