Bertil Lindblad
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Bertil Lindblad (Örebro November 26 1895 – Saltsjöbaden [outside ] June 25 1965) was a Swedish astronomer.
After finishing his secondary education at Örebro högre allmänna läroverk, Lindblad matriculated at Uppsala University in 1914. He received his filosofie magister degree in 1917, his filosofie licentiat degree in 1918 and completed his doctorate and became a docent at the university in 1920. From 1927 he was professor and astronomer of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and head of the Stockholm Observatory.
Lindblad studied the theory of the rotation of galaxies.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1948 and the Bruce Medal in 1954. A crater on the Moon is named after him.Template:Astronomer-stub