# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pieter-hendrik-van-cittert
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:18:01.616Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pieter-hendrik-van-cittert"
name: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert"
slug: "pieter-hendrik-van-cittert"
description: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert was a Dutch physicist and science historian. He is known for proving the van Cittert–Zernike theorem about the coherence of electromagnetic radiation in 1934. He also founded the University Museum in Utrecht."
tagline: "Dutch physicist (1889-1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portret_van_P.H._van_Cittert%2C_1925-35.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
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profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1889-05-30"
deathDate: "1959-10-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.802556
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hendrik_van_Cittert"
    title: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert"
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    title: "ون سیتترت"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hendrik_van_Cittert"
    title: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hendrik_van_Cittert"
    title: "Pieter Hendrik van Cittert"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2615590"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump