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Johannes Droste

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Johannes Droste (28 May 1886 – 16 September 1963)[1] was a Dutch mathematician and the second person, after Karl Schwarzschild, to have solved Einstein's field equation.

Biography

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On 27 May 1916,[2] a student of Hendrik Lorentz at the University of Leiden,[1] Droste presented his solution of Einstein's equation to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2] He obtained his doctorate in 1916.[1] From 1914 to 1919, Droste taught mathematics at the gymnasium in Gorinchem.[1] He then joined the University of Leiden and became professor of mathematics there in 1930.[1] Devoting himself to the teaching of mathematical analysis, he abandoned his research in physics, with the exception of a few contributions in elasticity and thermodynamics.[1]

Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Beenakker 2002, p. 1543.
  2. ^ a b Rothman 2002, p. 1541.

References

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  • Beenakker, Carlo (2002), "Short biography" (PDF), General Relativity and Gravitation, 34 (9): 1543
  • Rothman, Tony (September 2002), "Editor's Note: The Field of a Single Centre in Einstein's Theory of Gravitation, and the Motion of a Particle in That Field" (PDF), General Relativity and Gravitation, 34 (9): 1541–1543, doi:10.1023/a:1020795205829