Pieter Oosterhoff
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Dutch astronomer
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Pieter Oosterhoff's Degrees
- PhD Astronomy Leiden University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pieter Theodorus Oosterhoff was a Dutch astronomer. He was the co-administrator, along with Jan Oort, of the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands. His published papers are primarily in regard to variable stars and photometry. He is most noted for his 1939 observation that there appear to be two populations of globular clusters based on the periodicities of their RR Lyrae variable stars. These two populations would come to be known as Oosterhoff groups after him.
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