Willem Jacob van Stockum (20 November 1910 – 10 June 1944) was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general...

pedagogically important example. This solution is named after Willem Jacob van Stockum, who rediscovered it in 1937 independently of a much earlier discovery...

to its starting point. This possibility was first discovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1937 and later confirmed by Kurt Gödel in 1949, who discovered...

married Ervin Ross Marlin, a friend of her brother, mathematician Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1932. She had six children, who feature in many of her books...

Dutch sea captain and explorer Abraham Jacob van Stockum (1864–1935). Their son, mathematician Willem Jacob van Stockum (1910–44), discovered solutions of...

discovered as a solution to the equations of general relativity by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1936 and Kornel Lanczos in 1924, but not recognized as allowing...

referred to as a Tipler cylinder, a GR solution discovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum in 1936 and Kornel Lanczos in 1924, but not recognized as allowing...

dust particles. This was later rediscovered by Willem Jacob van Stockum and is known today as the van Stockum dust. It is one of the simplest known exact...

journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line (b. 1887) 1944 – Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1910) 1946 – Jack Johnson...

Klaver (1870–1960) a Dutch painter, lithographer and inventor Willem Jacob van Stockum (1910–1944) a mathematician, contributed to general relativity...