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Albert Bouwers

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Albert A. Bouwers was an optician from the The Netherlands who lived from 1893–1972. [1] He published in 1940 (during WWII) a design for a telescope that was later called the Maksutov telescope [1]

He earned his Phd. from Universiteit Utrecht in 1924, with a dissertation entitled in Dutch, Over het meten der intensiteit van Röntgenstralen [2]

References

  1. ^ a b Ian Ridpath, "Bouwers telescope", A Dictionary of Astronomy, 1997 first sentence of article
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project "Albert Bouwers "

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