Cornelis de Jager

Cornelis de Jager ( born April 29, 1921 Den Burg, Netherlands) is a Dutch astronomer who deals mainly with the sun and the spectra of the stars. He works at SRON (Space Research Organization Netherlands) in Utrecht.

Work

Cornelis de Jager received his doctorate in 1952 with Marcel Minnaert at Utrecht University with a thesis on the hydrogen spectrum of the sun. In 1974 he received the Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the Astronomical Society for his work dynamics of stellar atmospheres, 1984 Jules Janssen Award, 1988, the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society. Cornelis de Jager is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and Arts and a member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

His work includes studies of the influence of solar activity on the Earth's climate. He came to the conclusion that the sun, next to the human contribution, a significant impact on climate change of the earth.

Radosophie

With the so-called " Radosophie " (English Cyclosophy ) de Jager parodies numerology numerological phenomena such as the Charles Piazzi Smyth of Pyramidology. Was published in the Radosophie Skeptical Inquirer.

De Jager had four parameters of his Dutch bicycle measured ( pedal travel, diameter of the front wheel, the lamp and the bell) and demonstrated that can be drawn from these few parameters are calculated using simple mathematical operations a number of physical constants and astronomical values ​​. For example, it calculates the distance between Earth and Sun ( in hundred million kilometers ) means. Another exemplary calculations for the quotient of the mass of the proton and the electron, the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant and the speed of light can be performed by it.