Jacobus Kapteyn
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 103 years ago |
| Date of birth | January 19,1851 |
| Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
| Born | Barneveld |
| Netherlands | |
| Date of died | June 18,1922 |
| Died | Amsterdam |
| Netherlands | |
| Discovered | Kapteyn's Star |
| Books | Skew Frequency Curves in Biology and Statistics |
| Doctor student | Willem de Sitter |
| Education | Utrecht University |
| University of Groningen | |
| Awards | Bruce Medal |
| Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society | |
| James Craig Watson Medal | |
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| ID | 705289 |
Jacobus Kapteyn Life story
Prof Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn FRS FRSE LLD was a Dutch astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way and was the discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. Kapteyn was also among the first to suggest the existence of dark matter using stellar velocities as early as 1922.
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