Ed van den Heuvel
Edward "Ed" PJ van den Heuvel (born November 2, 1940 in Soest ) is a Dutch astrophysicist, known for observing the afterglow of gamma-ray flashes . He is professor at the Anton Pannekoek Astronomy Institute at the University of Amsterdam .
Life
He studied mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Utrecht with a doctorate in 1968 on the rotation of stars. In addition to the University of Amsterdam, he has also been to the University of California, Santa Barbara (1991), the University of Utrecht, the Institute for Advanced Study and the Free University of Brussels.
With the Italian-Dutch BeppoSAX X-ray satellite, which operated from 1996 to 2002, he succeeded in clearing up the origins of gamma-ray flashes. They found that they came from distant galaxies and were probably related to the formation of black holes from very massive stars in the early days of the cosmos. In addition to gamma ray flashes, he deals with the astronomy of compact objects such as neutron stars, white dwarfs in binary star systems and black holes.
In 1995 he received the Spinoza Prize and in 2002 the Descartes Prize, endowed with 500,000 euros, with the BeppoSAX team he led, which clarified the origins of gamma-ray flashes . He is an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of Leuven . He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (1982), the Academia Europaea (1992) and an honorary member of the Indian Academy of Sciences. He is a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . He is a member of the Royal Astronomical Society and an honorary member of the University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) in Pune .
Michiel van der Klis is one of his doctoral students .
Fonts
- with Jan van Paradijs : X-ray binaries , Scientific American November 1993
- with Herbert Gursky: X-ray emitting double stars , Scientific American March 1975
- Editor with Walter HG Lewin : Accretion-driven stellar x-ray sources , Cambridge University Press 1983
- Editor with RAMJ Wijers: The restless high energy universe , Proc. 2nd BeppoSAX Conference, Amsterdam 2003, Elsevier 2004
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Heuvel, Ed van den |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heuvel, Edward van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 2, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Soest (Netherlands) |