Background
Van den Bergh was the son of Samuel van den Bergh, one of the founders of Unilever.
Astronomer jurist lawyer politician
Van den Bergh was the son of Samuel van den Bergh, one of the founders of Unilever.
He was a lawyer in Amsterdam, 1915–1936. He was author of Astronomy for the millions and The universe in space and time, which were translated into English in 1937. During the 1950s he studied the longer eclipse cycles, allowing him to predict solar and lunar eclipses over a long time interval.
This was published in 1955 as Periodicity and Variation of Solar (and Lunar) Eclipses.
In 1958 he developed a compressed form of typesetting called Hoofdletters, published as Hoofdletters, Tweelingen Meerlingdruk. The crater Van den Bergh on the Moon is named after him.
From 1925-1933 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands.