1918 - 2000
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, 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.
1201 - 1261
HPI: 52.84
Rank: 398
1745 - 1818
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 399
1928 - Present
HPI: 52.79
Rank: 400
1898 - 1979
HPI: 52.76
Rank: 401
1946 - Present
HPI: 52.74
Rank: 402
1841 - 1902
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 403
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 404
1852 - 1900
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 405
1839 - 1873
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 406
1513 - 1570
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 407
1935 - Present
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 408
1909 - 1994
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 409
1920 - 1984
HPI: 52.61
Rank: 410
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.
1918 - 2012
HPI: 53.08
Rank: 124
1918 - 1961
HPI: 53.07
Rank: 125
1918 - 1999
HPI: 52.95
Rank: 126
1918 - 2016
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 127
1918 - 2006
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 128
1918 - 1943
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 129
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 130
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 131
1918 - 2011
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 132
1918 - 1983
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 133
1918 - 1996
HPI: 52.64
Rank: 134
1918 - 1995
HPI: 52.39
Rank: 135
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.30
Rank: 136
1930 - 2000
HPI: 53.12
Rank: 97
1930 - 2000
HPI: 53.10
Rank: 98
1933 - 2000
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 99
1908 - 2000
HPI: 52.85
Rank: 100
1919 - 2000
HPI: 52.81
Rank: 101
1901 - 2000
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 102
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 103
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.69
Rank: 104
1925 - 2000
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 105
1878 - 2000
HPI: 52.62
Rank: 106
1926 - 2000
HPI: 52.48
Rank: 107
1926 - 2000
HPI: 52.46
Rank: 108
1924 - 2000
HPI: 52.43
Rank: 109
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).
1611 - 1693
HPI: 53.05
Rank: 402
1864 - 1927
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 403
1533 - 1578
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 404
1625 - 1663
HPI: 52.87
Rank: 405
1834 - 1908
HPI: 52.75
Rank: 406
1568 - 1615
HPI: 52.72
Rank: 407
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 408
1589 - 1662
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 409
1653 - 1736
HPI: 52.68
Rank: 410
1863 - 1923
HPI: 52.67
Rank: 411
1970 - Present
HPI: 52.66
Rank: 412
1909 - 2006
HPI: 52.65
Rank: 413
1596 - 1674
HPI: 52.63
Rank: 414
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).
1580 - 1626
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 1
1872 - 1934
HPI: 58.87
Rank: 2
1881 - 1966
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 3
1588 - 1637
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 4
1508 - 1555
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 5
1903 - 1996
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 6
1918 - 2000
HPI: 52.70
Rank: 7
1835 - 1903
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 8
1688 - 1742
HPI: 51.05
Rank: 9
1856 - 1894
HPI: 50.55
Rank: 10
1898 - 1980
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 11
1848 - 1941
HPI: 41.74
Rank: 12
1918 - 2012
HPI: 41.33
Rank: 13