Egbert Adriaan Kreiken

Egbert Adriaan Kreiken ( born 1 November 1896 in Barneveld, Gelderland, † August 16, 1964 ) was a Dutch astronomer. The lunar crater Kreiken is named after him.

Life

Kreiken studied at the University of Groningen with Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, among others, and in 1923 received his doctorate with a thesis "On the color of the faint stars in the Milky Way and the distance of the Scutum -group".

Subsequently he worked in Amsterdam with, among others, Anton Pannekoek and was appointed in 1929 a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1928, he moved to Indonesia, where he worked on Bosscha Observatory. He spent most of his life as a lecturer and teacher in the countries of Indonesia (where he was temporarily Science Minister ), Liberia and Turkey, where he co-founded the Astronomical Institute of the University of Ankara.