Egbert Adriaan Kreiken, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken

Dutch astronomer

Date of Birth: 01-Nov-1896

Place of Birth: Barneveld, Gelderland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1964

Profession: astronomer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Egbert Adriaan Kreiken

  • Egbert Adriaan Kreiken (November 1, 1896, Barneveld, Gelderland – August 16, 1964) was a Dutch teacher and astronomer. He was born at Barneveld in the Netherlands, to a family of teachers.
  • After being awarded his Ph.D.
  • in 1923, he would become a professor of astronomy in Amsterdam. For most of his life he served as an educator, working in the developing countries of Indonesia, Liberia, and Turkey.
  • While he was in Indonesia he served as that nation's Minister of Education.
  • He became the director of the astronomy institute in Turkey, after moving there in 1954.
  • He would help found the Ankara University Observatory. Over a forty-year career he would publish a number of papers on astronomy, including studies of stars and stellar systems.
  • He died in 1964 as the result of a painful ailment. The crater Kreiken on the Moon is named after him.

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