Johannes Droste

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

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
  1. Beenakker 2002, p. 1543.
  2. Rothman 2002, p. 1541.

References
  • Beenakker, Tony (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
  • Rothman (2002), {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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