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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 192,875 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Willem de Sitter is the 208th most popular mathematician (down from 199th in 2019), the 183rd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 176th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Willem de Sitter ranks 208 out of 823. Before him are Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, Alonzo Church, Paolo Ruffini, Autolycus of Pitane, and Theodorus of Cyrene. After him are S. R. Ranganathan, Élie Cartan, Henry Briggs, Xu Guangqi, Hermann Schwarz, and John Horton Conway.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1872, Willem de Sitter ranks 43. Before him are Hugo Alfvén, Mikhail Tsvet, Édouard Herriot, Archduke Joseph Ferdinand of Austria, Ottokar Czernin, and Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark. After him are Marcel Renault, Edward Gordon Craig, Ichiyō Higuchi, Emily Davison, Kijūrō Shidehara, and Akhmet Baitursynov. Among people deceased in 1934, Willem de Sitter ranks 37. Before him are Siegbert Tarrasch, Andrei Bely, William Morris Davis, Duke Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Wallace Fard Muhammad, and Alexander von Kluck. After him are Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta, Winsor McCay, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Hayim Nahman Bialik, Jakob Wassermann, and Vyacheslav Menzhinsky.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Willem de Sitter ranks 183 out of 1,427. Before him are Jan van Scorel (1495), Pim Fortuyn (1948), Johnny Rep (1951), Guido van Rossum (1956), Regnier de Graaf (1641), and Rachel Ruysch (1664). After him are Anton Mauve (1838), Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606), Ruud Lubbers (1939), Willem Mengelberg (1871), Ruud van Nistelrooy (1976), and Johann Weyer (1515).

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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), Gemma Frisius (1508), Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Arend Heyting (1898), and Diederik Korteweg (1848).

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