Hendrik van Gent
Dutch astronomer
Hendrik van Gent was a Dutch astronomer.
He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the Leiden Southern Station and the Union Observatory in Johannesburg. He obtained his PhD from Leiden University in 1931. Wikipedia
Born: September 14, 1899, Pernis, Netherlands
Died: March 29, 1947 (age 47 years), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Discovered: 1694 Kaiser, 1132 Hollandia, 2203 van Rhijn, and more