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Dirk Brouwer
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<h2 id="awards">Awards</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Gold_Medal_of_the_Royal_Astronomical_Society/tqPkmYHb">Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Bruce_Medal/HAXYkc28">Bruce Medal</a> (1966)</li></ul> <h2 id="named-after-him">Named after him</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Asteroid/g7Ulr1VB">Asteroid</a> <a href="/facts/1746_Brouwer/XlKmtvVj">1746 Brouwer</a></li> <li>The crater <a href="/facts/Brouwer_(crater)/KcotahPe">Brouwer</a> on the <a href="/facts/Moon/zKHqEMPb">Moon</a> (jointly with <a href="/facts/Mathematician/eaFSR8Fx">mathematician</a> <a href="/facts/Luitzen_Egbertus_Jan_Brouwer/6q6ULf3b">Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer</a>)</li> <li><a href="/facts/Brouwer_Award_(Division_on_Dynamical_Astronomy)/Kzrj1joq">Dirk Brouwer Award</a> of the <a href="/facts/Division_on_Dynamical_Astronomy/VoxhCosY">Division on Dynamical Astronomy</a> of the <a href="/facts/American_Astronomical_Society/f5ohaItD">American Astronomical Society</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Dirk_Brouwer_Award_(American_Astronautical_Society)/wRrjnKYW">Dirk Brouwer Award</a> of the <a href="/facts/American_Astronautical_Society/Gz2eImQD">American Astronautical Society</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Brouwer/index.html">Bruce Medal page</a></li> <li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0078//0000195.000.html">Awarding of Bruce medal</a></li> <li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/MNRAS/0115//0000199.000.html">Awarding of RAS gold medal</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/brouwer-dirk.pdf">National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoir</a></li></ul> <h3>Obituaries</h3> <ul><li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/AJ.../0071//0000076.000.html">AJ 71 (1966) 76</a> (one paragraph)</li> <li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/Obs../0086//0000092.000.html">Obs 86 (1966) 92</a> (one line)</li> <li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0078//0000104.000.html">PASP 78 (1966) 104</a> (one line, see also <a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/PASP./0078//0000195.000.html">[1]</a>)</li> <li><a href="http://adsabs.harvard.edu//full/seri/QJRAS/0008//0000084.000.html">QJRAS 8 (1967) 84</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Obituary: Dirk Brouwer". Physics Today. 19 (3): 108–109. March 1966. doi:10.1063/1.3048090. Archived from the original on 2013-09-17. <a href="https://archive.today/20130917142834/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v19/i3/p108_s2?bypassSSO=1" target="_blank">https://archive.today/20130917142834/http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v19/i3/p108_s2?bypassSSO=1</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Hockey, Thomas (2009). The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012. <a href="978-0-387-31022-0" target="_blank">978-0-387-31022-0</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>