Van de Kamp, Peter, 1901-1995
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Kamp, Peter van de, 1901-1985
De Kamp, Peter van, 1901-1995
Van de Kamp, P. (Peter), 1901-1995
Kamp, P. van de (Peter), 1901-1995
Van de Kamp, Piet, 1901-1995
Kamp, Piet van de, 1901-1985
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found: His Determination of the sun's velocity, 1926.
found: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, 1928:p. 301 (P. van de Kamp)
found: Space: the architecture of the universe, 1962:title page (Peter Van de Kamp)
found: Wikipedia, August 26, 2014(Peter van de Kamp; born Piet van de Kamp on December 26, 1901 in Kampen, Netherlands; died May 18, 1995 in Amsterdam; known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States; a Dutch astronomer who lived most of his life in the United States; he was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972; he specialized in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars; he came to public attention in the 1960s when he announced that Barnard's star had a planetary system based on observed "wobbles" in of its motion, but this is now known to be spurious)
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1981-08-19: new
2014-08-29: revised
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