Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun gerard_peter_kuiper

1 sense of gerard peter kuiper

Sense 1
Kuiper, Gerard Kuiper, Gerard Peter Kuiper -- (United States astronomer (born in the Netherlands) who studied the solar system and suggested in 1951 that there is a belt of comet-like debris at the edge of the solar system (1905-1973))
       INSTANCE OF=> astronomer, uranologist, stargazer -- (a physicist who studies astronomy)