Jean Jacques Raimond Jr.

Jean Jacques Raimond Jr. (13 April 1903, in The Hague – 3 December 1961)[1] was a Dutch astronomer.

He obtained his PhD at the latter as a student of Jacobus Kapteyn, defending the dissertation The Coefficient of Differential Galactic Absorption.

In 1944 he became the president of the 'Nederlandse Vereniging voor Weer- en Sterrenkunde' (NVWS, Netherlands Association for Meteorology and Astronomy) after serving as a board member.

From 1938 until his death in 1961, he published annual issues of the popular series 'Sterrengids', an astronomical almanac.

[2] The asteroid 1450 Raimonda is named after him, as is the crater Raimond on the Moon.