Talk:Gerard Kuiper

message: I believe there is a pronunciation problem here. Kuiper is often pronounced like "kiper" in the English-speaking world, particularly in the US. Kuiper was Dutch, so his name should be pronounced like "kowper". This is similar to the dutch word for house, pronounced identically in English, but spelled in Dutch "huis".
wll my teacher says it coupier but its kiper  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.217.210.13 (talk) 02:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought the English name Cowper was pronounced Cooper. Valetude (talk) 17:11, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: The current text said he received a "B.Sc.". I doubt that. The bachelor/master system was introduced in the Netherlands somewhere in the 2000s, back than you would first get your propedeuse and when done receive a Doctorandus degree (in his case probably more comparable to a Master of Science degree). The old system was probably very confusing for Americans (including the source). I haven't been able to find another source. How to fix this? Multichill (talk) 11:13, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This document (https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/379806/DB_Teach_and_Travel_JHA_2010_accepted.pdf?sequence=1) discusses how the Astronomy department in Leiden in 1918-1928 worked: "Every Dutch academic program started with a three-year program that culminated in a kandidaatsexamen, comparable to a Bachelor exam. [...] After finishing the kandidaat program, astronomy students could enter the doctoraal (graduate) phase of their study, in which they were engaged in research for the first time." So Kuiper started in 1924, did his kandidaatsexamen in 1927, and then started his doctoral phase which he ended in 1933. Since there is a wikipedia article for the kandidaatsexamen (Candidate (degree)), I think the article should link to that. EdgeNavidad (Talk · Contribs) 17:00, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Please note that 'doctoraal' is not the same as 'doctorate'. So his 'doctoraal' phase ended with a Doctorandus title (equiv. to MSc.). A doctorate phase ends with a Dr. title (equiv. to PhD). 217.62.40.248 (talk) 21:42, 10 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  B.Sc. 

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message: From the National Academy of Science's 1993 on-line biographical memoir, page 265, by Dale P. Cruikshank; 
"During World War II (1943 to 1945), Kuiper took a leave of absence from the University of Chicago and joined the faculty of Harvard's Radio Research Laboratory, where he was involved in radar countermeasures. In this connection he went to England with the Eighth Air Force Headquarters in 1944. He returned to Europe in January 1945 as a member of the ALSOS Mission of the U.S. War Department, to assess the state of German science. Kuiper accomplished a rather daring rescue of Max Planck, who
he learned was in the eastern zone of Germany in dire circumstances and in danger of being captured by Soviet troops. He took a vehicle and driver and raced across the countryside to Planck's location, arriving only hours ahead of the Soviets. Planck and his wife were taken to the western zone and then on to Gottingen and to the care of friends and relatives."
This does not appear to be widely known, despite appearing in a review article of Scientific American decades ago. It should be.  125.238.241.122 (talk) 00:47, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kuiper's war experience