1963 RF. Discovered 1963 Sept. 14 at the Goethe Link Observatory at Brooklyn, Indiana.
The name was suggested by B. G. Marsden (who independently established the identity 1963 RF = 1947 QA) to memorialize Prof. Brouwer's studies of the minor planet families. Following (1578) Kirkwood, this is the twenty-first permanently numbered member of the Hilda group.
Brouwer is also honored by a lunar crater.