# Alan William James Cousins

> Alan William James Cousins FRAS was a South African astronomer. His career spanned 70 years during which time he concentrated on the measurement of variable stars, including the measurement of the two sinusoidal periods of Gamma Doradus. His precise measurements in the 1970s of stellar fluxes helped standardize the UBVRI photometric system now known as the "Johnson-Cousins system".

*South African astronomer (1903-2001)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Scientist ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Scientists
- **Country:** South Africa
- **Born:** 1903-08-08
- **Died:** 2001-05-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alan William James Cousins FRAS was a South African astronomer. His career spanned 70 years during which time he concentrated on the measurement of variable stars, including the measurement of the two sinusoidal periods of Gamma Doradus. His precise measurements in the 1970s of stellar fluxes helped standardize the UBVRI photometric system now known as the "Johnson-Cousins system".

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