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Rigel
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The Danish astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873-1967) and his Dutch wife Henrietta Kapteyn (1881–1956; daughter of the astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn) named their daughter Rigel (1916–1993). She was their only child and was directly named after the star.
Sources used:
- page 643 of "Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn: Born Investigator of the Heavens" written by Pieter C. Van der Kruit:
https://books.google.de/books?id=aqJ3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA643
(in English)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Kapteyn#Kapteyn's_Family_and_Early_Life
(in English)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejnar_Hertzsprung
(in English)
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Lucille
5/20/2019
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Sources used:
- page 643 of "Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn: Born Investigator of the Heavens" written by Pieter C. Van der Kruit: https://books.google.de/books?id=aqJ3BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA643 (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Kapteyn#Kapteyn's_Family_and_Early_Life (in English)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejnar_Hertzsprung (in English)