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Hendrik C. van de Hulst

1918 - 2000

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Hendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst (19 November 1918 – 31 July 2000) was a Dutch astronomer. In 1944, while a student in Utrecht, he predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. After this line was discovered, he participated, with Jan Oort and Lex Muller, in the effort to use radio astronomy to map out the neutral hydrogen in our galaxy, which first revealed its spiral structure. Motivated by the scattering in cosmic dust, Van de Hulst studied light scattering by spherical particles and wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic, subsequently formulating the anomalous diffraction theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hendrik C. van de Hulst is the 518th most popular mathematician (up from 524th in 2019), the 490th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 542nd in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 518 out of 1,004. Before him are Ion Ghica, Richard Hamming, Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Hilda Geiringer, Hypsicles, and Pierre François Verhulst. After him are Viktor Sadovnichiy, Endre Szemerédi, Ernest William Brown, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Henri Brocard, and Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 146. Before him are Mickey Spillane, Émile Derlin Zinsou, Gottfried von Einem, Suzanne Flon, Brenda Milner, and Venetia Burney. After him are Jelle Zijlstra, Iryna Melnykova, Abdul Haris Nasution, Martin Lundström, Ruggiero Ricci, and Douglas Bennett. Among people deceased in 2000, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 132. Before him are L. Sprague de Camp, Hidetoki Takahashi, Svetozar Vukmanović, Claire Trevor, Spyros Markezinis, and Adelaida Avagyan. After him are Abdul Haris Nasution, Alfred Schwarzmann, Ursula Kuczynski, Edward Gorey, Ferenc Farkas, and Ioannis Mitropoulos.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 490 out of 1,646. Before him are Pierre Cuypers (1827), Junkie XL (1967), Willem de Vlamingh (1640), Wiel Coerver (1924), Gerard Reve (1923), and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856). After him are Rudi Carrell (1934), Johannes van den Bosch (1780), Virgil van Dijk (1991), Gijs van Lennep (1942), Barent Fabritius (1624), and Tim Krabbé (1943).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 9. Before him are Gemma Frisius (1508), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Willem de Sitter (1872), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856). After him are Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Arend Heyting (1898), Jacobus Golius (1596), Gustav de Vries (1866), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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