Jan van Paradijs
Dutch high-energy astrophysicist · Netherlands · Scientists · Lived 1946 to 1999 · aged 53
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Something wrong?Johannes A. van Paradijs was a Dutch high-energy astrophysicist. He is best known for discovering the first optical afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, GRB 970228, in February 1997, together with two of his students, and for establishing that gamma-ray bursts are extragalactic events.
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Johannes A. van Paradijs was a Dutch high-energy astrophysicist. He is best known for discovering the first optical afterglow of a gamma-ray burst, GRB 970228, in February 1997, together with two of his students, and for establishing that gamma-ray bursts are extragalactic events. He was married to the astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou.
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