Lodewijk Woltjer
Astronomer
Lodewijk Woltjer was an astronomer, and the son of astronomer Jan Woltjer. He studied at the University of Leiden under Jan Oort earning a PhD in astronomy in 1957 with a thesis on the Crab Nebula. Wikipedia
Born: April 26, 1930, Noordwijk, Netherlands
Died: August 25, 2019 (age 89 years), Geneva, Switzerland
Academic advisor: Jan Oort
Edited works: The Distribution and Motion of Interstellar Matter in Galaxies: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, April 10 to 20, 1961, ESO Workshop on Site Testing for Future Large Telescopes, La Silla, 4-6 October 1983: Proceedings, and Galaxies and the Universe: Lectures
Awards: Karl Schwarzschild Medal and Janssen Medal
Education: Universiteit Leiden