Pieter Hendrik van Cittert

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Cittert, not Cittert.
In this article, Dutch capitalization is used for tussenvoegsels in Dutch family names. The first letter in van Cittert is capitalized unless it is preceded by a name, initial or title of nobility.

Pieter Hendrik van Cittert (30 May 1889– 8 October 1959) 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.

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