Gart Westerhout
Dutch astronomer
Died when: 85 years 121 days (1023 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Gart Westerhout (15 June 1927 – 14 October 2012) was a Dutch-American astronomer.Well before completing his university studies at Leiden, he had already become well-established internationally as a radio astronomer in the Netherlands, specializing in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen.
He emigrated to the United States, became a naturalized citizen, and held a number of important scientific and management positions in academic and government institutions.
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