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Jan Veth's paintings of Jacobus Kapteyn
Pieter C. van der Kruit
Jacobus C. Kapteyn is regarded as one of the coryfees of the University of Groningen. Part of his legacy is two paintings of him by Dutch painter Jan Pieter Veth. One, showing him…
Pannekoek's Galaxy
Pieter C. van der Kruit
Antonie (Anton) Pannekoek (1873-1960) is remembered as one of the initiators of the field of stellar atmospheres. A second part of his research concerned Galactic astronomy. He was…
Pieter Johannes van Rhijn, Kapteyn's Astronomical Laboratory and the Plan of Selected Areas
P. C. van der Kruit
In this contribution I discuss the Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory during the period of Pieter Johannes van Rhijn's directorate, which lasted from 1921 to 1957. It had developed un…
Lessons from the Milky Way: the Kapteyn Universe
P. C. van der Kruit
Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presented a model for the distribution of stars in space together with a dynamical interpretation in terms of an equilibrium between the gravi…