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 33,581 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Hendrik C. van de Hulst is the 524th most popular mathematician (down from 403rd in 2019), the 542nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 407th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 524 out of 1,004. Before him are Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Jai Singh II, Guðbrandur Þorláksson, Carl Neumann, Julia Robinson, and Martin Ohm. After him are Eugenio Calabi, Dai Zhen, Thomas Wright, Nina Bari, Max Noether, and Heinrich Martin Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 155. Before him are Lucian Pulvermacher, Oles Honchar, Albert George Wilson, Eric Ericson, Abraham Pais, and Iryna Melnykova. After him are Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Ruggiero Ricci, Patachou, Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad, and Cornell Capa. Among people deceased in 2000, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 147. Before him are Abraham Pais, Basil Bernstein, Jean-Claude Izzo, Nicholas Clay, Julie London, and John Tukey. After him are Ioannis Mitropoulos, Frédéric Dard, George Segal, John Ljunggren, Mohammad Ali Fardin, and Gisèle Freund.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 542 out of 1,646. Before him are Dirk van der Aa (1731), Willem van de Velde the Elder (1611), Walter Lewin (1936), Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596), Anna van Egmont (1533), and Michael van Langren (1598). After him are Henri Nouwen (1932), Hannie Schaft (1920), Godfried Schalcken (1643), Corine Rottschäfer (1938), Jan Baptist Weenix (1621), and Meijer de Haan (1852).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Hendrik C. van de Hulst ranks 8. Before him are Willem de Sitter (1872), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Gemma Frisius (1508), and Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856). After him are Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), Diederik Korteweg (1848), Jacobus Golius (1596), and Gustav de Vries (1866).

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