Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh was born in Holland in 1929
and had decided that he wanted to become an astronomer
by the time he was five years old. After attending
Leiden University for a year he received a scholarship
to attend Princeton University, where he received
his A.B. in 1950. Subsequently he obtained an M.Sc.
from Ohio State University and a Dr. rer. nat. from
the University of Goettingen in Germany. The first
half of his astronomical career was spent at the
David Dunlap Observatory of the University of Toronto
where he developed an interest in galaxies, star
clusters, variable stars and supernovae. The second
half of his career was spent in Victoria, British
Columbia, where he became Director of the Dominion
Astrophysical Observatory. Now, in his retirement,
he is spending most of his time on the study of
galaxy evolution using images of galaxies at distances
of up to ten billion light years that were obtained
with the Hubble Space Telescope.
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