Willem Jacob van Stockum
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Dutch mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics University of Amsterdam
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity. Biography Van Stockum was born in Hattem in the Netherlands. His father was a mechanically talented officer in the Dutch Navy. After the family relocated to Ireland in the late 1920s, Willem studied mathematics at Trinity College, Dublin, where he earned a gold medal. He went on to earn an M.A. from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.
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