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MATHEMATICIAN

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrik C. van de Hulst has received more than 31,089 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Hendrik C. van de Hulst is the 404th most popular mathematician (up from 480th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 451st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 404 out of 823. Before him are Qin Jiushao, Caspar Wessel, Lennart Carleson, Helmut Hasse, Grigory Margulis, and Ernst Schröder. After him are Bruno Abakanowicz, Hermann Hankel, Daniele Barbaro, Yakov Sinai, Stephen Cole Kleene, and Richard E. Bellman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 130. Before him are Ruggiero Ricci, Jeff Chandler, George Mosse, Jay Wright Forrester, Mickey Spillane, and Willi Graf. After him are Bruno Zevi, María Mercader, Ángel Labruna, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Anatoly Tarasov, and Abdul Haris Nasution. Among people deceased in 2000, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 103. Before him are José Águas, FM-2030, Yevgeny Khrunov, Gisèle Freund, Bernhard Wicki, and Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei. After him are Bruno Zevi, Edward Gorey, Nikolaos Andriakopoulos, Jean Peters, Julie London, and Basil Bernstein.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 408 out of 1,427. Before him are Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Herman Gorter (1864), Cornelis Cort (1533), Edward, Count Palatine of Simmern (1625), Herman Snellen (1834), and Pieter Both (1568). After him are Adriaen van de Venne (1589), Caspar van Wittel (1653), Louis Couperus (1863), Ronald de Boer (1970), Johannes Willebrands (1909), and Leonaert Bramer (1596).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 7. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580), Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Gemma Frisius (1508), and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903). After him are Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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