Willem de Sitter
Affiliations: | 1908-1934 | Astronomy | Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands |
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(1872 - 1934)
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Mean distance: 11.56 | S | N | B | C | P |
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Parents
Sign in to add mentorDavid Gill | research assistant | 1897-1899 | Royal Observatory at Cape of Good Hope (Astronomy Tree) | |
(https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Sitter/) | ||||
Jacobus Cornelis Kapteyn | grad student | 1901 | RUG | |
(Discussion of heliometer observations of Jupiter's satellites) |
Children
Sign in to add traineeGerard P. Kuiper | research assistant | 1933 | Leiden |
Adriaan Blaauw | research assistant | 1946 | Leiden |
Jan Woltjer | grad student | 1918 | Leiden (Astronomy Tree) |
Willem Hendrik van den Bos | grad student | 1925 | Leiden |
Dirk Brouwer | grad student | 1927 | Leiden |
Simon C. van Veen | grad student | 1927 | Leiden |
Collaborators
Sign in to add collaboratorAlbert Einstein | collaborator | 1932 | ||
(http://www.pnas.org/content/18/3/213.full.pdf) |
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De Sitter W, D. F. F. (1934) Pays-Bas Bulletin GéOdéSique. 44: 312-313 |
De Sitter W. (1933) Early astronomy and the Observatory of Leyden Nature. 132: 771-772 |
Einstein A, de Sitter W. (1932) On the Relation between the Expansion and the Mean Density of the Universe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 18: 213-4 |
DE SITTER W. (1931) Contributions to a British Association Discussion on the Evolution of the Universe Nature. 128: 706-709 |
de Sitter W. (1931) Das sich ausdehnende Universum Die Naturwissenschaften. 19: 365-369 |
de Sitter W. (1930) ON THE DISTANCES AND RADIAL VELOCITIES OF EXTRA-GALACTIC NEBULAE, AND THE EXPLANATION OF THE LATTER BY THE RELATIVITY THEORY OF INERTIA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 16: 474-88 |
De Sitter W. (1928) On the rotation of the earth and astronomical time Nature. 121: 99-106 |
De Sitter W. (1923) Problems of fundamental astronomy Nature. 112: 147-148 |