Willem de Sitter Einstein's Friend and Opponent /

• Main Author: Guichelaar, Jan (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Biographies,
• Subjects: Cosmology.; Physics.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Popular Science in Physics.

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 desc...

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.