LC control no. | n 81066837 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-1995 |
Variant(s) | Kamp, Peter van de, 1901-1985 De Kamp, Peter van, 1901-1995 Van de Kamp, P. (Peter), 1901-1995 Kamp, P. van de (Peter), 1901-1995 Van de Kamp, Piet, 1901-1995 Kamp, Piet van de, 1901-1985 |
Birth date | 19011226 |
Death date | 19950518 |
Place of birth | Kampen (Netherlands) |
Place of death | Amsterdam (Netherlands) |
Affiliation | Swarthmore College Sproul Observatory |
Profession or occupation | Astronomers |
Found in | His Determination of the sun's velocity, 1926. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1928: p. 301 (P. van de Kamp) Space: the architecture of the universe, 1962: title page (Peter Van de Kamp) Wikipedia, August 26, 2014 (Peter van de Kamp; born Piet van de Kamp on December 26, 1901 in Kampen, Netherlands; died May 18, 1995 in Amsterdam; known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States; a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States; he was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972; he specialized in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars; he came to public attention in the 1960s when he announced that Barnard's star had a planetary system based on observed "wobbles" in of its motion, but this is now known to be spurious) |