Jan Burgers
Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist Wilhelm G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918.
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Background
- Born in
- Arnhem
- Educated at
- Leiden University
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the American Physical Society🏆 Panetti Ferrari Award🏆 honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers🏆 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship🏆 Otto Laporte Award
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Paul Ehrenfest
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Geert Otten📖 B.G. van der Hegge Zijnen📖 C.M. Tchen📖 Reinier Timman📖 Jannes Pieter Mazure
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1895
Born
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Died
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