Asteroids named after people called Niels
👶 Niels as a baby name
Johannes Andersen (b. 1943), of the Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, works mainly on the chemical and dynamical evolution of the Milky Way's disk. As IAU General Secretary (1997–2000), he has offered sage guidance on the IAU's role with near-Earth objects. The name is endorsed by B. G. Marsden and H. Rickman.Discovered 14 August 1985 by E. Bowell, Anderson Mesa
Niels K. Jerne (1911-1994) was a Danish Nobel laureate in medicine (1984), and he shared his prize with G. J. F. Köhler and C. Milstein. They received the prize for theories concerning the development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies.Discovered 17 October 1977 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar
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