Bambang Hidayat is an Indonesian scientist known for promoting astronomy nationally and internationally.12176 Hidayat (3468 T-3). JPL Small-Body Database, Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessed 27 June 2018. His work has focused on the study of binary stars and galactic structure.Introduction of Astronomy Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Astronomy, p. xv. Ed. Helaine Selin. Springer Science+Business Media, 2000. The minor star Hidayat (3468 T-3), discovered in 1977, was named after him by Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld. He has over forty papers published to his name and has written several astronomy textbooks.Prof. Bambang Hidayat , Islamic World Academy of Sciences, 2010. Accessed 27 June 2018.
He graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 1965.David Stanley Evans, Under Capricorn, A History of Southern Hemisphere Astronomy, p. 278. Milton Park: Taylor & Francis, 1988. Soon thereafter, he served as the director of the Bosscha Observatory from 1968 until 1999. He also served as the Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at the Bandung Institute of Technology as well as Vice President of the International Astronomical Union from 1994 to 2000, and has been a fellow of the Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) since 1992 He is also a member of the American Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, and Indonesian Academy of Sciences, as well as the founder of the Indonesian Astronomical Society and co-founder of the Indonesian Physics Society.
Hidayat helped to establish the first International School for Young Astronomers in Indonesia. When first visited by Donat Wentzel, himself a pioneer in establishing ISYAs, Hidayat was alone in his observatory; later, Wentzel found that Hidayat had trained a group of astronomy students to work around him as well as spurred others to work in astronomy and Indonesia's space program elsewhere.Donat Wentzel, International Schools for Young Astronomers, Astronomically Developing Countries, and Lonely Astronomers. Taken from New Trends in Astronomy Teaching, p. 29. Eds. Lucienne Gouguenheim, Derek McNally, and John Peret. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
See also Meanings of minor planet names: 12001–13000#101
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Oral history interview transcript for Bambang Hidayat on 23 August 1997, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives