astro.wikisort.org - ResearcherHendrik Christoffel "Henk" van de Hulst (19 November 1918 – 31 July 2000) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician.
Dutch astronomer and mathematician
Hendrik C. van de Hulst |
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 Hendrik C. van de Hulst in 1977 |
Born | (1918-11-19)19 November 1918
Utrecht, the Netherlands |
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Died | 31 July 2000(2000-07-31) (aged 81)
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Nationality | Dutch |
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Known for | 21 cm hyperfine line Anomalous diffraction theory |
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Awards | Henry Draper Medal (1955) Eddington Medal (1955) Rumford Medal (1964) Bruce Medal (1978) Karl Schwarzschild Medal (1995) |
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Scientific career |
Fields | Astronomy |
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Institutions | University of Leiden |
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Thesis | Optics of spherical particles (1946) |
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Doctoral advisor | Marcel Minnaert[1] |
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Doctoral students | Elly Dekker[2] |
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In 1944, while a student in Utrecht,[3] he predicted the existence of the 21 cm hyperfine line of neutral interstellar hydrogen. After this line was discovered, he participated, with Jan Oort and C.A. Muller, in the effort to use radio astronomy to map out the neutral hydrogen in our galaxy, which first revealed its spiral structure. Motivated by the scattering in cosmic dust, he studied light scattering by spherical particles and wrote his doctoral thesis on the topic,[1] subsequently formulating the anomalous diffraction theory.[4]
He spent most of his career at Leiden University, retiring in 1984. He published widely in astronomy, and dealt with the solar corona, and interstellar clouds. After 1960 he was a leader in international space research projects.[5]
In 1956 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
Books
- van de Hulst, H.C., Light Scattering by Small Particles, New York, (Wiley, 1957; Dover, 1981), ISBN 0-486-64228-3.[7]
- van de Hulst, H.C., Multiple Light Scattering, New York, Academic Press, 1980, ISBN 978-0-12-710701-1.[7]
Honors
Awards
Named after him
- Asteroid 2413 van de Hulst
- van de Hulst approximation
References
Bibliography
Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1991 |
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Fellows |
- Paul Adams
- John Evan Baldwin
- Michael John Bevan
- Kenneth Bray
- Peter Elwood Bryant
- Robert Wolfgang Cahn
- John Cardy
- Brian Charlesworth
- Bryan Randell Coles
- Michael Dexter
- David Headley Green
- Frank Grosveld
- Nigel Hitchin
- Tim Hunt
- David Stewart Jenkinson
- Brian F. G. Johnson
- Philip Johnson-Laird
- David King
- Malcolm Douglas Lilly
- George Owen Mackie
- Allan Mackintosh
- Enid MacRobbie
- Michael May
- John Norman Murrell
- John Newsom-Davis
- Kenneth John Packer
- John Palmer
- Gerald Pattenden
- Graham Ross
- Charles Scriver
- Christopher Roland Somerville
- Andrew Soward
- Govind Swarup
- Stephen Thorpe
- Lap-Chee Tsui
- Leslie Valiant
- Martin Paterson Vessey
- Dick Walcott
- Kenneth Walters
- Michael Waterfield
- Colin Webb
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На других языках
[de] Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst, genannt Henk, (* 19. November 1918 in Utrecht; † 31. Juli 2000 in Leiden) war einer der bedeutendsten niederländischen Astrophysiker der letzten 150 Jahre.
- [en] Hendrik C. van de Hulst
[es] Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Utrecht, 19 de noviembre de 1918 - Leiden, 31 de julio de 2000) fue un astrónomo neerlandés. Predijo teóricamente las ondas de radio emitidas por el hidrógeno del espacio interestelar, las cuales pueden ser detectadas desde la Tierra.
[fr] Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Utrecht, 19 novembre 1918 – Leyde, 31 juillet 2000) était un astronome néerlandais.
[it] Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst
Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst (Utrecht, 19 novembre 1918 – Leida, 31 luglio 2000) è stato un astronomo e matematico olandese.
[ru] Хюлст, Хендрик Кристофель ван де
Хендрик Кристофель ван де Хюлст (нидерл. Hendrik Christoffel van de Hulst; 1918—2000) — голландский астроном и математик.
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