Willem Hendrik van den Bos
(1896-1974)
Dutch astronomer
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Willem Hendrik van den Bos (25 September 1896 – 30 March 1974) was a Dutch astronomer who worked at the Union Observatory in South Africa and became its director in 1941. He discovered nearly new double stars, made more than astronomical measurements and compiled a catalogue of Southern hemisphere double stars. He computed the orbits of more than 100 double stars using a method he invented and which later became the accepted standard.
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25 September 1896 Rotterdam
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30 March 1974 (aged 77) Johannesburg, South Africa
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