Cornelis Jacobus Gorter
Cornelis Jacobus Gorter , called Cor Gorter, (born August 14, 1907 in Utrecht , † March 30, 1980 in Leiden ) was a Dutch pioneer in low-temperature physics.
Gorter went to school in The Hague and studied at the University of Leiden , where he received his doctorate in 1932 under Wander Johannes de Haas ( paramagnetic properties of salts ). From 1931 to 1936 he worked at the Teyler Foundation in Haarlem and from 1936 to 1940 at the University of Groningen , before he succeeded Pieter Zeeman as professor at the University of Amsterdam in 1940 . In 1946 he returned to Leiden to succeed Willem Keesom in the chair that the famous low-temperature physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes once held. There he modernized the instrumentation of the Kamerling Onnes laboratory.
He discovered 1936 the paramagnetic relaxation (what in 1946 a book was published by him in suffering it during the German occupation, when he had to hide, wrote) and discovered also almost the nuclear magnetic resonance . He was not only a good experimenter ( Hendrik Casimir described him as the most outstanding Dutch experimental physicist of his generation), but also a good theorist who, after discovering the Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect , developed a two-fluid model of superconductivity with Casimir. Later, with Casimir, he also developed a two- fluid model of superfluid He II.
He was the editor of Progress in Low Temperature Physics . Since 1946 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW). In 1952 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , 1967 to the National Academy of Sciences , and 1970 to the American Philosophical Society . and in 1974 at the Académie des Sciences in Paris. In 1966 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for his contributions to low temperature physics.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Memories of Casimir to Gorter, from his memoirs Haphazard Reality , Harper and Row 1983
- ↑ KNAW Past Members: CJ Gorter. Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, accessed August 26, 2018 (with link to biography).
- ↑ Member History: Cornelis J. Gorter. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 25, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Gorter, Cornelis Jacobus |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gorter, Cor |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1907 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Utrecht |
DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1980 |
Place of death | Suffer |