Born Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 28 March 1911
Died Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18 December 1972
Gale van Albada was well known for his work on the evolution of clusters of galaxies, the theory of formation of stellar associations and double stars, and for observations and orbit determinations of binary stellar systems.
Van Albada earned a Ph.D. in astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam as a student of Herman Zanstra and Antonie Pannekoek in 1945. His dissertation was a study of line intensities in stellar spectra. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Warner and Swasey Observatories of Case Institute, Cleveland, Ohio, during which he worked on near‐infrared spectra of late type stars with Jason John Nassau, van Albada was appointed director of the Bosscha Observatory at Lembang, Java, Netherlands East Indies. He arrived at the height of the revolutions that resulted in the independence of Indonesia in December 1949.
Van Albada revived the Bosscha Observatory during his 10 years...
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van Albada, G. B. (1958). “Photographic Measures of Double Stars from Plates Obtained with the 60 cm Refractor.” Annals of the Bosscha Observatory Lembang 9, pt. 2.
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——— (1962). “Gravitational Evolution of Clusters of Galaxies, with Consideration of the Complete Velocity Distribution.” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 16: 172–177.
——— (1963). “Simple Expressions for Observable Quantities in Some World Models. ” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 17: 127–131.
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Houziaux, L. (2007). Van Albada, Gale Bruno. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1408
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