Kapteyn

[ kahp-tahyn ]

noun

1. Ja·co·bus Cor·ne·lis [yah-, koh, -b, y, s kaw, r, -, ney, -lis], 1851–1922, Dutch astronomer.

Example Sentences

In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.

From Scientific American

Survivors include two stepchildren, Maartje Oldenburg and Paulus Kapteyn; and four grandchildren.

From Washington Post

UBS Investment Bank chief economist Arend Kapteyn said while confidence in improving U.S. labour markets could fade if a new variant takes hold, it was still early days in terms of gauging the impact.

From Reuters

“Under normal circumstances losing a job without access to benefits would be bad enough, but in the current situation, chances of finding a new job are likely to be close to nonexistent,” Arie Kapteyn, director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research, which administers the tracking survey, said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times

Leon Koopmans of the University of Groningen's Kapteyn Astronomical Institute in the Netherlands heads a team that wants to probe the universe's dark ages, before the light of the first stars.

From Science Magazine