Hendrik van Gent (14 September 1899, Pernis – March 29, 1947, Amsterdam)[2] was a Dutch astronomer.
He moved to South Africa in 1928 in order to observe the southern sky at the Leiden Southern Station and the Union Observatory in Johannesburg.
He studied variable stars and also discovered three comets, namely C/1941 K1, C/1944 K2 and C/1943 W1.
[1] He died of a heart attack at the age of 47 while on leave in the Netherlands.
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