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Willem de Sitter

1872 - 1934

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Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He is known for the de Sitter universe, which is a cosmological model that was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willem de Sitter is the 320th most popular mathematician (down from 215th in 2019), the 290th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 193rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willem de Sitter ranks 320 out of 1,004. Before him are Abraham Wald, Grigory Margulis, Guo Shoujing, Alain Connes, Abu Zayd al-Balkhi, and Pietro Cataldi. After him are Edward Kasner, Lennart Carleson, Kunihiko Kodaira, Edward Waring, Georg Alexander Pick, and Emil Artin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Willem de Sitter ranks 62. Before him are Théophile de Donder, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Emily Davison, Sidónio Pais, Anton Korošec, and Albert Sarraut. After him are Solomiya Krushelnytska, Kijūrō Shidehara, Luigi Orione, Wilhelm Ohnesorge, Edward Wilson, and Carlo Sforza. Among people deceased in 1934, Willem de Sitter ranks 51. Before him are Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Hubert Lyautey, Adrien de Gerlache, Paul Troost, Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, and Herbert Chapman. After him are Franz Schreker, Roberto Ferruzzi, Paul Gustav Fischer, Carsten Borchgrevink, Frederick Delius, and Viktor Kaplan.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Sitter ranks 290 out of 1,646. Before him are Otto van Veen (1556), Baldwin III, Count of Flanders (940), Erwin Koeman (1961), Jacob van Campen (1596), Alexander, Prince of Orange (1851), and Floris I, Count of Holland (1025). After him are Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (1627), Ludger (742), Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau (1968), Pieter van der Aa (1659), Zacharias Janssen (1585), and Regnier de Graaf (1641).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Willem de Sitter ranks 5. Before him are L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Willebrord Snellius (1580), Gemma Frisius (1508), and Isaac Beeckman (1588). After him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Arend Heyting (1898), and Jacobus Golius (1596).

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