Gart Westerhout, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gart Westerhout

Dutch astronomer

Date of Birth: 15-Jun-1927

Place of Birth: The Hague, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 14-Oct-2012

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: United States, Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Gart Westerhout (15 June 1927 – 14 October 2012) was a Dutch-American astronomer.
Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen.
He emigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, and held a number of important scientific and management positions in academic and government institutions.