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Born July 30, 1887 • The Hague • Netherlands
Died August 10, 1966 (aged 79) • Amersfoort • Netherlands
Subjects Of Study gravity • measurement
Marcia McNutt
American geophysicist
Pierre Bouguer
French scientist
Sir Harold Spencer Jones.
Sir Harold Spencer Jones
British astronomer
Thomas Corwin Mendenhall
American scientist
Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
Dirk Brouwer
American astronomer
Marcel Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Conrad Schlumberger
German geophysicist
Understanding Newton's theory of universal gravitation
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Milutin Milankovitch
Serbian mathematician and geophysicist
Walter Munk
American geophysicist and oceanographer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
Kip Thorne
American physicist
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher