Portrait of Gerard Kuiper
University of Arizona, Deparment of Planetary Sciences
Gerard Kuiper
Gerard Kuiper was an American astronomer who lived between 1905-1973. He is considered the father of modern planetary science for his brilliant study of our solar system.
Kuiper developed new techniques of looking at the sky, and discovered a moon of Neptune and Uranus. He also found that Titan had an atmosphere similar to our own.
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