Sitter Biography of willem de sitter (18721934) willem de sitter studied mathematicsat Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Sitter.html
Extractions: Version for printing Willem De Sitter studied mathematics at Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa (1897-99) then, in 1908, de Sitter was appointed to the chair of astronomy at Leiden. From 1919 he was director of the Leiden Observatory. In 1913 de Sitter produced an argument based on observations of double star systems which proved that the velocity of light was independent of the velocity of the source. It put to rest attempts which had been made up until this time to find emission theories of light which depended on the velocity of the source but were not in conflict with experimental evidence. De Sitter corresponded with Ehrenfest in 1916, and he proposed that a four- dimensional space- time would fit in with cosmological models based on general relativity. He published a series of papers (1916-17) on the astronomical consequences of Einstein 's general theory of relativity. He found solutions to
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Extractions: The Bruce Medalists Photo courtesy Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago Willem de Sitter 6 May 1872 1931 Bruce Medalist 19 November 1934 Willem de Sitter studied at the University of Groningen and spent most of his career at the University of Leiden , where he directed and expanded the astronomy program. He also observed briefly with David Gill at the Cape of Good Hope, and he later stationed a Leiden astronomer in South Africa. He worked extensively on the motions of the satellites of Jupiter, determining their masses and orbits from decades of observations. He redetermined the fundamental constants of astronomy and determined the variation of the rotation of the earth. He also performed statistical studies of the distribution and motions of stars, but today he is best known for his contributions to cosmology. His 1917 solution to Albert Einstein's field equations showed that a near-empty universe would expand. Later, he and Einstein found an expanding universe solution without space curvature. Presentation of Bruce medal
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Extractions: Willem de Sitter Bibliography Papers, etc. Leiden Observatory . There is much correspondence with de Sitter in the Albert Einstein papers Other References: Historical Berger, A., ed., Louvainla-Neuve, Belgium, 10-13 October 1983 (D. Reidel Pub. Co., Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984). Bertotti, B., et al, eds., Modern Cosmology in Retrospect (Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, UK, 1990). de Sitter, Willem, Short History of the Observatory of the University at Leiden, 1633-1933 ed. by P. C. van der Kruit and K. van Berkel (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000), p. 79 - 108 [ abstract Einstein and the History of General Relativity, Godart, Odon and M. Heller, (Pachart Pub. House, Tucson, c1985). Isis Human Implications of Scientific Advance , Eric Gray Forbes, ed., Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the History of Science in Edinburgh 10-15 Aug 1977 (Edinburgh U.P., Edinburgh, 1978), p. 567-75. Human Implications of Scientific Advance , Eric Gray Forbes, ed., Proceedings of the 15th International Congress of the History of Science in Edinburgh 10-15 Aug 1977 (Edinburgh U.P., Edinburgh, 1978), p. 541-43. Nature Einstein and the History of General Relativity
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Extractions: Dutch astronomer who developed a cosmological model in 1917 based on the assumptions of homogeneity and isotropy, the two assumptions of Einstein's model. His model assumed an expanding universe (in agreement with the Hubble law ), unlike Einstein's static model, and assumed that the matter density was zero. This model is now called the Einstein-de Sitter cosmological model Einstein Hubble
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Sitter, Willem De sitter, willem de (18721934) de sitter was born in Sneek, Friesland, andstudied at the University of Groningen and the Royal Observatory, Cape Town, http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Sitter/1.html
Extractions: In 1911 de Sitter outlined how the motion of the constituent bodies of our Solar System might be expected to deviate from predictions based on Newtonian dynamics if Albert Einstein 's special relativity theory were valid. After the publication of Einstein's general theory of relativity 1915, de Sitter expanded his ideas and introduced the 'de Sitter universe' (as distinct from the 'Einstein universe'). His model later formed an element in the theoretical basis for the steady-state hypothesis regarding the creation of the universe. He presented further models of a nonstatic universe: he described both an expanding universe and an oscillating one.
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