Dirk Brouwer (September 1 1902 – January 31 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.

He received his Ph.D. at Leiden University in the Netherlands and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.

He specialized in celestial mechanics and wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.

He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1955 and the Bruce Medal in 1966.

The asteroid 1746 Brouwer is named after him, and the Brouwer crater on the Moon is jointly named for him and mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.

External links

• Bruce Medal page
• Awarding of Bruce medal
• Awarding of RAS gold medal

Obituaries

• AJ 71 (1966) 76 (one paragraph)
• Obs 86 (1966) 92 (one line)
• PASP 78 (1966) 104 (one line, see also [1])
• QJRAS 8 (1967) 84