Gale Bruno van Albada
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Gale Bruno van Albada (28 March 1912, Amsterdam — 18 December 1972, Amsterdam (?)) was a Dutch astronomer.
Van Albada obtained his Ph.D. with Antonie Pannekoek at the University of Amsterdam in 1945. He shared Pannekoek's communist ideologies and back in the 1930s his brother Piet van Albada had been an associate of Marinus van der Lubbe. Van Albada was director of the Bosscha Observatory on Java from May 1949 to July 1958. On August 1, 1950 he married the astronomer Elsa van Dien (Paramaribo, 12 July 1914 - Amsterdam, 15 October 2007). She received her doctorate at Harvard in 1947 and worked in 1949 at Bosscha Observatory as well. The couple had three children, one of whom became an astronomer. Because of the political situation the family had to leave in July 1958. In 1960, Van Albada succeeded Zanstra heading the department of astronomy at the University of Amsterdam.
The crater van Albada on the Moon is named after him.
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