Joan Voûte

Joan George Erardus Gijsbertus Voûte (7 June 1879 – 20 August 1963) was a Dutch astronomer.

He studied civil engineering at Delft, but while a student he developed an interest in astronomy—studying variable stars.

In 1913 he gained a post at the Cape Observatory in South Africa, where he worked on double stars and parallax measurements.

He became a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1917 (and was re-elected in 1953 after his membership lapsed during the war).

Voûte became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1922, he resigned in 1951.