Johan Willem Jakob Antoon Stein (27 February 1871–27 December 1951) was a Dutch astronomer and a member of the Society of Jesus.
Johan Stein, c. 1930
For other people with the same name, see John Stein.
He was born in Grave, Netherlands and spend his youth in Maastricht. In 1894 he finished a course of ecclesiastical philosophy, then studied astronomy at the University of Leyden. His doctoral dissertation was on the Horrebow method for determining latitude.[1] By the time he received his doctorate in 1901, he had begun teaching physics and math at the St. Willebrord College of Katwijk. He was ordained to priesthood in Maastricht, 1903.
From 1906–1910 he served as an assistant at the Vatican Observatory. Thereafter he joined St. Ignatius College in Amsterdam, where he taught math and science for the next twenty years. In 1922 he became a member of the I.A.U. Commissions for Variable Stars. After 1924, he joined the Association of Dutch Amateur Astronomers. In 1930 he became director of the Vatican Observatory.[2] He was responsible for the modernization of the observatory, as well as its relocation to Castel Gandolfo in 1933.[3] He died in Rome, Italy.
^. Loyola University. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved 2008-11-19.
^ abde Kort, Jules Jacques Marie Adriaan (1952). "Obituary: In memoriam Father Johan Stein S.J., 1871–1951". Ricerche astronomiche. 2 (16): 372–374. Bibcode:1952RA......2..372D.
^Daley, James A. (2006). "Notes on the Double Stars of Father John W. Stein, S. J." (PDF). Journal of Double Star Observations. 2 (4): 134–137. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
^Blue, Jennifer (July 25, 2007). "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature". USGS. Retrieved 2007-08-05.
External linksedit
"Stein, Johannes Wilhelmus Jacobus Antonius (1871–1951)" (in Dutch). Instituut voor Neder. Retrieved 2008-11-24.
March 15, 2024
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