It takes the average reader 12 hours and 23 minutes to read Jan Hendrik Oort by Pieter C. van der Kruit
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This book is the first thorough and overdue biography of one of the giants of science in the twentieth century, Jan Hendrik Oort. His fundamental contributions had a lasting effect on the development of our insight and a profound influence on the international organization and cooperation in his area of science and on the efforts and contribution of his native country. This book aims at describing Oort's life and works in the context of the development of his branch of science and as a tribute to a great scientist in a broader sense. The astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort from the Netherlands was founder of studies of the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way Galaxy, initiator of radioastronomy and the European Southern Observatory, and an important contributor to many areas of astronomy, from the study of comets to the universe on the largest scales.
Jan Hendrik Oort by Pieter C. van der Kruit is 726 pages long, and a total of 185,856 words.
This makes it 245% the length of the average book. It also has 227% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 55 minutes to read Jan Hendrik Oort aloud.
Jan Hendrik Oort is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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