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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Willem de Sitter
    sub title: Einstein's Friend and Opponent
  name:
    name part: Guichelaar, Jan.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 278 p. 71 illus., 31 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This is a thorough, very readable and excellently illustrated biography of Willem de Sitter (1872-1934), one of the most influential astronomers of his time, and also a co-author and correspondent of Einstein. Authored by a physicist and skilled writer, the book gives a beautiful and accessible description of the physics debated by Einstein and de Sitter, as well as the latter's alternative cosmological model, later known as the De Sitter Universe. But this is just part of a fascinating and varied life story involving numerous contributions to astronomy, as well as many places and personalities of early 20th century physics. The book will appeal to all those interested in astronomy and physics and their history.
  table of contents: Astronomy in Leiden -- Descent -- Youth and Education -- The Making of an Astronomer -- The Galilean Moons of Jupiter -- The Road to Professor in Leiden -- Leiden Activities -- Fundamental Work and a new Theory for Jupiter's Satellites -- Gravity, General Theory of Relativity and Cosmology -- Director of the Observatory and Stay in Arosa -- At the Top -- International Business -- Last years -- Abbreviations.
  note: by Jan Guichelaar.
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Popular Science in Physics
  classification: QB980-991
  classification: 523.1
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer Biographies
  identifier: 9783319983370
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98337-0
  record info:
    record creation date: 180921
    record change date: 20191029012424.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-98337-0