Jan W. van Spronsen

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Johannes "Jan" Willem van Spronsen (born February 7, 1928 in The Hague ; † December 31, 2010 ibid) was a Dutch chemical historian.

Van Spronsen studied chemistry at the Technical University in Delft with the degree in 1946 and at the University of Leiden with the degree in 1952. He was 1953 to 1963 chemistry teacher at a school for electrical engineering in Amsterdam and 1954 to 1984 at the high school in Alkmaar . In 1969 he received his doctorate in Leiden with a dissertation on the history of the periodic table of the elements. 1960 to 1984 he also taught chemistry history at the University of Utrecht as an assistant professor. In 1971 he was visiting professor at Ghent University.

He is best known as a historian of the periodic table. In it he identifies six largely independent explorers: in addition to Meyer and Mendelejew, Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois , William Odling , Gustavus Hinrichs and John AR Newlands .

In 1975 he received the Dexter Award . For many years he was chairman of the chemical history group of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society. In 1997 he received the Liebig-Wöhler Friendship Prize, in 1994 the von Marum Medal of the Dutch Chemical Society and in 1994 the Sarton Medal of the University of Ghent. In 1970 he received the JB Gillis Prize from the Royal Flemish Academy of Sciences.

From 1952 to 1958 he was secretary of the artist society Artifex and from 1978 to 1995 he was president of the Orgelcentrum Foundation.

Fonts

  • The Periodic System of Chemical Elements: A History of the First 100 Years, Elsevier 1969 (Japanese translation 1976)
  • L'Histoire de la Décourverte du Systeme Periodique des Elements Chimiques et l'Apport de Béguyer de Chancourtois, 1965
  • Historia del Descrubiminento del Sistema Periodico de los Elementos Chimicos, 1967
  • Historie van de Scheikunde in Europse Musea, 1973, 1982
  • Louis Pasteur, in Actuele onderwerpen, 1985
  • Schets the Void van Lavoisier door Martinus van Marum, 1987
  • Guide of European Museums with Collections on History of Chemistry, 1981, 1996
  • Guide for Museums with Collections on History of Chemistry and of Pharmacy, 1998
  • Editor: Nobel Prize Topics in Chemistry 1981
  • One Hundred Years of the Law of Octaves, Chymia, Vol. 12, 1965, pp. 125-137
  • The History and Prehistory of the Law of Dulong and Petit as Applied to the Determination of Atomic Weights, Chymia, Volume 12, 1967, pp. 157-169
  • The Priority Conflict Between Mendeleev and Meyer, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 46, 1969, pp. 136-139
  • Mendeleev as a Speculator, Journal of Chemical Education, Volume 58, 1981, pp. 790-791

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personal data
SURNAME Spronsen, Jan W. van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spronsen, Johannes Willem van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch chemical historian
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2010
Place of death The hague