Bart Bok

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Dutch-American astronomer (1906-1983)

United States ScientistsLived 1906 to 1983 · aged 77

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Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer.

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The spectacular star-forming region around Eta Carinae was the subject of Bok's doctoral dissertation. This image by the VLT Survey Telescope

The Caterpillar, a Bok Globule in the Carina Nebula. Picture by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Bok crater on the Moon

Awards 6

1982Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

1982Klumpke-Roberts Award

1977Bruce Medal

1972Karl G. Jansky Lectureship

1950Guggenheim Fellowship

Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

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SpousePriscilla Fairfield Bok

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Paul DaviesAlso won Klumpke-Roberts Award

Maarten SchmidtAlso won Bruce Medal

Edoardo AmaldiAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Rashid SunyaevAlso won Henry Norris Russell Lectureship

Paul KurtzAlso won Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry

Helen Sawyer HoggAlso won Klumpke-Roberts Award

About this person

Bartholomeus Jan "Bart" Bok was a Dutch-American astronomer, teacher, and lecturer. He is best known for his work on the structure and evolution of the Milky Way galaxy, and for the discovery of Bok globules, which are small, densely dark clouds of interstellar gas and dust that can be seen silhouetted against brighter backgrounds. Bok suggested that these globules may be in the process of contracting, before forming into stars.

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