Willem Luyten Jacob

Willem Jacob Luyten (March 7th 1899 - November 21st 1994) was a Astronome néerlando - American.

It had been born in Indonesia.

He worked with the Observatoire Lick and the Harvard College Observatory, and taught with the Université of Minnesota.

He studied the own movements star S and discovered many dwarf white.

He discovered some of the closest neighbors of the Sun, of which the star of Luyten and the star system Luyten 726-8 with the high own movement, which one discovered quickly that he contained remarkable the eruptive variable star UV Ceti.

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External bonds

  • Biography of the Academy National off Sciences

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