In memoriam Hugo van Woerden (1926 - 2020)
Abstract
On September 4, 2020, Prof. Dr. Hugo van Woerden, after a short illness, passed away at the age of 94. Hugo was both amateur and famous professional astronomer, and one of the founders of the Meteor Section of the Royal Dutch Association for Astronomy and Meteorology (KNVWS Werkgroep Meteoren), in 1946, and inventor of the use of star fields to determine the observer's limiting magnitude. Hugo van Woerden was professor in radio astronomy at the Kapteyn Institute in Groningen and among the first practicing radio astronomy in the Netherlands, and carried out important research with the Dwingeloo and Westerbork radio telescopes.
- Publication:
-
eMeteorNews
- Pub Date:
- November 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020eMetN...5..362B
- Keywords:
-
- Obituary;
- Hugo van Woerden