Johannes Droste

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing French Wikipedia article at [[:fr:Johannes Droste]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|fr|Johannes Droste}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Dutch. Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Dutch Wikipedia article at [[:nl:Johannes Droste]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|nl|Johannes Droste}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

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.

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]

• 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

This article about a Dutch scientist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article about a European mathematician is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e