Jan Burgers
Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (January 13, 1895 – June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918.[1] He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.[2]
J. M. Burgers | |
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 Jan Burgers | |
| Born | January 13, 1895 |
| Died | June 7, 1981 (aged 86) Washington, United States |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Known for | Bateman-Burgers equation Burgers vortex Burgers material Burgers vector |
| Awards | ASME Medal (1965) Otto Laporte Award (1974) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | Delft University of Technology University of Maryland |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Ehrenfest |
Jan Burgers was one of the co-founders of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 1946, and was its secretary-general from 1946 until 1952.[3]
In 1931 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1955 he became foreign member.[4]
Notes
- Johannes Martinus Burgers (1918). "Het atoommodel van Rutherford-Bohr" (PDF).
- "Obituary: Jan Burgers". Physics Today. 35 (1): 84–85. January 1982. Bibcode:1982PhT....35a..84D. doi:10.1063/1.2890021.
- Fons Alkemade. "Some of IUTAM's history". IUTAM. Archived from the original on 2011-07-17. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
- "Johannes Martinus Burgers (1895 - 1981)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
References
- Nieuwstadt, F.T.M.; Steketee, J.A., eds. (1995). Selected Papers of J.M. Burgers. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-3265-2.
External links
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- Johannes Martinus Burgers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- A.J.Q. Alkemade, Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1895–1981), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. (in Dutch)
- "Johannes Martinus Burgers; 13 January 1895 to 7 June 1981", biography at the University of Maryland
- JM Burgers Centrum
- The Burgers program for fluid dynamics at the University of Maryland
- Oral History interview transcript with Johannes Burgers 9 June 1962, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- "On the emergence of patterns of order". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 69: 1–25. 1963. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1963-10832-0. MR 0143359., 32nd Gibbs lecture delivered by Burgers at Philadelphia, Tuesday, 20 January 1959
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