Jan Oort - Honors

Honors

Awards

  • Bruce Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in 1942
  • Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1946
  • Henry Norris Russell Lectureship of the American Astronomical Society in 1951
  • Gouden Ganzeveer in 1960
  • Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomische Gesellschaft in 1972
  • Balzan Prize for Astrophysics in 1984

Named after him

  • Asteroid 1691 Oort
  • Oort Cloud
  • Oort constants of galactic structure

Upon his death, Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar remarked, "The great oak of Astronomy has been felled, and we are lost without its shadow."

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