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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willem de Sitter has received more than 212,711 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Willem de Sitter is the 215th most popular mathematician (down from 208th in 2019), the 193rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willem de Sitter ranks 215 out of 1,004. Before him are Victor D'Hondt, Constantin Carathéodory, Hermann Schwarz, Étienne-Louis Malus, Antoine Augustin Cournot, and Autolycus of Pitane. After him are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Callippus, Michel Chasles, Xu Guangqi, Henri Cartan, and Henry Briggs.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Willem de Sitter ranks 38. Before him are José Sanjurjo, Habibullah Khan, Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Emily Davison, Hugo Alfvén, and Ichiyō Higuchi. After him are Julius Fučík, Henry Tingle Wilde, Édouard Herriot, Marcel Renault, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Kijūrō Shidehara. Among people deceased in 1934, Willem de Sitter ranks 37. Before him are Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Siegbert Tarrasch, Andrei Bely, Franz Ehrle, Hayim Nahman Bialik, and Jakob Wassermann. After him are Pietro Gasparri, Alexander von Kluck, William Morris Davis, Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Adrien de Gerlache, and Hubert Lyautey.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Sitter ranks 193 out of 1,646. Before him are Ruud Geels (1948), Margaret of Bavaria (1363), Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588), Corry Brokken (1932), Eddie Van Halen (1955), and Balthasar van der Ast (1593). After him are Nicholas J. Spykman (1893), Wesley Sneijder (1984), Johann Adam Reincken (1643), Rachel Ruysch (1664), Jan van Scorel (1495), and Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Willem de Sitter ranks 2. Before him are Willebrord Snellius (1580). After him are L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), Isaac Beeckman (1588), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Gemma Frisius (1508), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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