Claim: 1946 Walraven was discovered by H. van Gent in 1931 and it was named after Theodore Walraven who never worked in tertiary education.
Evidence: This minor planet was named in honor of astronomer and pioneer in optical instrumentation and precision photometry, Theodore Fjeda Walraven (1916–2008), who was a professor at the Leiden University and for many years resident astronomer at the former Leiden Southern Station near Hartbeespoortdam, South Africa.