Wentworth Miller made his screenwriting debut.
Herman Zanstra -LRB- November 3 , 1894 , Schoterland -- October 2 , 1972 , Haarlem -RRB- was a Frisian / Dutch astronomer .. Schoterland. Schoterland. Haarlem. Haarlem. Frisian / Dutch. Dutch people. astronomer. astronomer. Zanstra. Zanstra ( crater ). Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland .. Heerenveen. Heerenveen. Friesland. Friesland. Zanstra. Zanstra ( crater ). In 1917 he graduated with an Engineer 's degree in chemical engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology .. chemical engineering. chemical engineering. Delft Institute of Technology. Delft Institute of Technology. Delft. Delft. While working in Delft for four years , the last two as a high school teacher , he wrote a highly theoretical and mathematical paper on relative motion which he sent to William Francis Gray Swann .. Delft. Delft. William Francis Gray Swann. William Francis Gray Swann. Swann , then offered him to earn a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics with him at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis , which he did in two years time by expanding on his paper -LRB- dissertation  : A Study of Relative Motion in Connection with Classical Mechanics , 1923 -RRB- .. University of Minnesota. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis. Minneapolis. After another year with Swann , now in Chicago , and a year at various labs in the Netherlands and Germany and two months at Niels Bohr 's lab in Copenhagen , he became a postdoc at Caltech .. Chicago. Chicago. Niels Bohr. Niels Bohr. Copenhagen. Copenhagen. Caltech. Caltech. Here he wrote a famous paper , An Application of the Quantum Theory to the Luminosity of Diffuse Nebulae , which for the first time provided a quantitative method -LRB- the `` Zanstra method '' -RRB- for understanding the luminosity of nebulas and comets .. Zanstra method. Zanstra method. Zanstra. Zanstra ( crater ). After teaching briefly at the University of Washington he went to London and eventually to the University of Amsterdam .. University of Washington. University of Washington. University of Amsterdam. University of Amsterdam. World War II left him stranded in South Africa , and he therefore took up a teaching position in Durban , but returned to Europe after the war .. World War II. World War II. South Africa. South Africa. Durban. Durban. In 1949 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences .. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1961 .. Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. The lunar crater Zanstra is named after him , as is Asteroid 2945 Zanstra .. Zanstra. Zanstra ( crater ). Asteroid. Asteroid. 2945 Zanstra. 2945 Zanstra