Tjeerd Sicco van Albada (born 14 October 1936) is a Dutch

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either ...

and emeritus professor of Astronomy at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen in the Netherlands. Founded in 1614, the university is th ...

Career

Van Albada was born on 14 October 1936 in

Akkrum Akkrum is a village in the Dutch province of Friesland. It is located in the municipality Heerenveen, about 17 km south of the city of Leeuwarden. Akkrum had about 3,395 inhabitants in 2017. History The village was first mentioned in 1315 as ...

. He obtained his PhD in mathematics and natural sciences from the

in 1968. He was lecturer of astronomy at the same university between 1971 and 1979. In 1980 he became professor of Astronomy, and worked at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. He took up emeritus status in 2001. Van Albada became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1984.

Honors

On 5 July 2001, the central

main-belt The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, located roughly between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies, of many sizes, but much smaller than planets, called ...

asteroid 10435 Tjeerd, discovered during the

Palomar–Leiden survey The Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids, ...

in 1960, was named after him ().

References

External links

Profile on Mathematics Genealogy Project

Profile on NARCIS
1936 births Living people 20th-century Dutch astronomers Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Heerenveen University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen {{Netherlands-scientist-stub