Cornelis de Jager#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 940 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1990 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Cornelis de Jager passed away May 27, 2021.
Positions Held
- Director of the Utrecht Observatory
- Founder and first director of the Utrecht Space Research Laboratory
- Founder of the Astrophysical Institute of Brussels Free University
- 1960-1986Professor at Utrecht University
- 1952 PhD
Fields of Scholarship
- Solar physics
- Solar research
- Study of supergiant stars
- Solar variation
Honours and Awards
- General Secretary of the IAU (1967-1973)
- First chairman of Stichting Skepsis (1987-1998)
- First chairman of the European Council of Skeptical Organisations (1994-2001)
- 1974 Karl Schwarzschild Medal
- 1984 Prix Jules Janssen
- 1988 George Ellery Hale Prize by the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society
- Honorary doctorates in Paris and Wroclaw
