Willem Hendrik Gispen (b. 1943) is a well-known Dutch scientist in the field of neurosciences, and from 2001 to 2007 he was rector of Utrecht University. He contributed to establishing the Sonnenborgh museum and observatory as a place for communication and education in astronomy and meteorology.
Discovered on 16-10-1977 in Palomar by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.