| Dirk Brouwer | |
| Birth Date: | 1 September 1902 |
| Birth Place: | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Death Place: | New Haven, US |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Field: | astronomy |
| Alma Mater: | Leiden University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Willem de Sitter |
| Doctoral Students: | Brian G. Marsden Jean Kovalevsky |
| Known For: | celestial mechanics |
| Prizes: | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1955) Bruce Medal (1966) |
Dirk Brouwer (pronounced as /nl/; September 1, 1902 – January 31, 1966) was a Dutch-American astronomer.[1]
He received his PhD in 1927 at Leiden University under Willem de Sitter[2] and then went to Yale University. From 1941 until 1966 he was editor of the Astronomical Journal.
He specialized in celestial mechanics and together with Gerald Clemence wrote the textbook Methods of Celestial Mechanics.