Willem de Sitter
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Dutch cosmologist
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Willem de Sitter's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Groningen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Willem de Sitter was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. Life and work Born in Sneek, de Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the Cape Observatory in South Africa . Then, in 1908, de Sitter was appointed to the chair of astronomy at Leiden University. He was director of the Leiden Observatory from 1919 until his death.
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