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Willem Jacob Luyten ( March 7 1899 – November 21 1994) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

He worked at Lick Observatory and Harvard College Observatory, and taught at the University of Minnesota.

He studied the proper motions of stars and discovered many white dwarfs.

Luyten's star, one of the Sun's nearest neighbors, was discovered by him.

He won the James Craig Watson Medal in 1964 and the Bruce MedalThe Catherine Wolfe Bruce gold medal is awarded every year by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for outstanding lifetime contributions to astronomy. See also Past laureates are: 1898 Simon Newcomb 1899 Arthur Auwers 1900 David Gill 1902 Giovanni V. in 1968Events Undated Booker Prize for Fiction is established by Booker plc. 1968 is known as the year of the Prague Spring and also the year of the Paris riots. The ASCII character code is standardized as ANSI Standard X3. Nauru adopt his national anthem of the.

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National Academy of Sciences biography

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