Born Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 12 April 1914
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Blaauw, A. (1939). “A Determination of the Longitude of the Vertex and the Ratio of the Axes of the Velocity‐Ellipsoid from the Dispersions of the Proper Motions of Faint Stars Measured at the Radcliffe Observatory.” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 8: 305–312. (Dr. Blaauw's first publication, which indicates what would be his abiding interest in galactic structure.)
——— (1946). “A Study of the Scorpio–Centaurus Cluster.” Publications of the Kapteyn Laboratory, no. 52. (Ph.D. thesis, under the direction of Pieter J. van Rhijn.)
——— (1952). “The Evolution of Expanding Stellar Associations; the Age and Origin of the Scorpio–Centaurus Group.” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 11: 414–419.
——— (1952). “The Velocity Distribution of the Interstellar Calcium Clouds.” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 11: 459–473.
——— (1956). “On the Luminosities, Motions, and Space Distribution of the Nearer Northern O‐B5 Stars.” Astrophysical Journal 123: 408–439.
——— (1961). “On the Origin of O‐ and B‐type Stars with High Velocities (The ‘Run‐Away' Stars), and Some Related Problems.” Bulletin of the Astronomical Institutes of the Netherlands 15: 265–290.
——— (1963). “The Calibration of Luminosity Criteria.” In Basic Astronomical Data, edited by K. Aa. Strand, pp. 383–420. Vol. 3 of Stars and Stellar Systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
——— (1964). “The O Associations in the Solar Neighborhood.” Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2: 213–246.
——— (1965). “The Concept of Stellar Populations.” In Galactic Structure, edited by Adriaan Blaauw and Maarten Schmidt, pp. 435–453. Vol. 5 of Stars and Stellar Systems. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
——— (1980). “Jan H. Oort's Work.” In Oort and the Universe, edited by Hugo van Woerden, Willem N. Brouw, and Henk C. van de Hulst, pp. 1–19. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
——— (1985). “The Progenitors of the Local Pulsar Population.” In Birth and Evolution of Massive Stars and Stellar Groups, edited by W. Boland and H. van Woerden, pp. 211–224. Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
——— (1991). ESO's Early History. Garching: European Southern Observatory.
——— (1991). “OB Associations and the Fossil Record of Star Formation.” In The Physics of Star Formation and Early Stellar Formation, edited by Charles J. Lada and Nikolaos D. Kylafis. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
——— (1993). ”Massive Runaway Stars.” In Massive Stars: Their Lives in the Interstellar Medium, edited by Joseph P. Cassinelli and Edward B. Churchwell, p. 219. San Francisco: Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
——— (1995). “Stellar Evolution and the Population Concept after 1950: The Vatican Conference.” In Stellar Populations, edited by P. C. van der Kruit and G. Gilmore, pp. 39–48. IAU Symposium No. 164. Dordrecht: Kluwer (reprinted in 1999 in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 267, 45–54).
Blaauw, A., C. S. Gum, J. L. Pawsey, and G. Westerhout (1959). “Definition of the New I. A.U. System of Galactic Coordinates.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 119: 422–423.
De Zeeuw, P. T. et al. (1999). “A Hipparcos Census of the Nearby OB Associations.” Astronomical Journal 117: 354–399.
Struve, O. and A. Blaauw (1948). “The Radial Velocity of RR Lyrae.” Astrophysical Journal 108: 60–77.
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Milone, E.F. (2007). Blaauw, Adriaan. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_166
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