Edward van den Heuvel#
| Membership Number: | 1188 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor emeritus at the Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek of the University of Amsterdam
- Since 1974 - 2005 Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Astronomical Institute
- 1970 - 1980 University of Brussels
- 1969 - 1974 University of Utrecht
- 1968 - 1969 University of California, Santa Cruz
Fields of Scholarship
- Gamma ray bursts
- Compact objects
- Stellar evolution
- Physics of neutron stars and black holes
- Radio pulsars
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Doctorate from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- 1995 Spinoza Award
- 2002 European Union Descartes Prize
- 2018 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize of the Republic of Armenia
- Knighted in the Order of the Netherlands Lion
- 1982 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Honorary fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences
- Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Honorary fellow of the Inter University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, India
- Asteroid 3091 van den Heuvel is named after him
