Asteroids named after people called Douwe

(10980) Breimer

Douwe Breimer (b. 1943) is Rector Magnificus and President of Leiden University, a world-renowned pharmaceutical scientist and long-time supporter of astronomy in Leiden. The name was suggested by T. de Zeeuw.Discovered 29 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar