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Willem de Sitter
Dutch cosmologist.
Born May 6th, 1872 in Sneek. [ref]
Died November 20th, 1934 at 62 years old in Leiden. [ref]
Occupations
astronomer, mathematician, physicist, university teacher
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Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine