Gale Bruno van Albada

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Gale Bruno van Albada (born March 28, 1912 in Amsterdam , † December 18, 1972 ) was a Dutch astronomer .

He received his doctorate in 1945 from Anton Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam . He shared Pannekoek's communist views and his brother Piet van Albada was a comrade of Marinus van der Lubbe in the 1930s .

Van Albada was director of the Bosscha Observatory on Java from May 1949 to July 1958 . There he married the Harvard graduate and astronomer Elsa van Dien on August 1, 1950 , who had also worked in Bosscha since 1949 . Due to the political situation, the family had to leave the island in July 1958 and returned to the Netherlands. Van Albada succeeded his mentor Pannekoek as head of the astronomical faculty at the University of Amsterdam in 1960 .

The Van Albada crater on Earth's moon and the asteroid (2019) Van Albada , discovered on September 28, 1935 , are named after him.

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