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
