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Willem de Sitter

Biography MathSciNet

Ph.D. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen 1901

Dissertation: Discussion of Heliometer Observations of Jupiter's Satellites.

Mathematics Subject Classification: 85—Astronomy and astrophysics

Advisor: Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn

Students:
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Dirk Brouwer	Universiteit Leiden	1927
Coert Hins	Universiteit Leiden	1925
Pieter Kremer	Universiteit Leiden	1923
August Leckie	Universiteit Leiden	1919
Willem van den Bos	Universiteit Leiden	1925
Simon van Veen	Universiteit Leiden	1927	72
Jan Woltjer	Universiteit Leiden	1918

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