Willem de Sitter (1872-1934)
Subject Fields
Astronomy
Born
Sneek, The Netherlands
Famous for
Working with Einstein on the cosmological implications of general relativity, received the Bruce Gold Medal in 1931, added an astrophysical and a theoretical division to the existing astrometric one at the Leiden Observatory and responsible for bringing the famous J.H. Oort to Leiden.
Researcher in Leiden
1919-1934