Jacob Kistemaker

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Jacob "Jaap" Kistemaker (born April 23, 1917 in Kolhorn ; † May 28, 2010 in Bilthoven ) was a Dutch university professor , atomic physicist and is considered the father of the Dutch uranium enrichment program .

biography

After attending school, he began a study of 1,935 mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Leiden and was then during the Second World War, Assistant Professor at Heike Kamerlingh Onnes - laboratory in Leiden . In May 1945 he began his doctorate to become a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.), which he completed on November 21, 1945 at the chair of Hendrik Anthony Kramers with a dissertation on the subject of thermodynamic properties of helium in the vicinity of its lambda point (Thermodynamische eigenschappen van helium in de omgeving van het lambda-punt).

In the 1950s , Kistemaker was at the forefront of the development of the separation of uranium isotopes in the Netherlands . He achieved great fame together with Joop Los with the further development of the ultracentrifuge , which was invented by The Svedberg in the 1920s . The advanced ultracentrifuge and its technology made it possible to produce uranium for use in nuclear power plants , such as the Urenco uranium enrichment plant in Almelo .

In 1949 he was also the founder of the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics of the Foundation for Basic Research on Matter (Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie) (FOM-Amolf), of which he was director until his retirement in 1982. On October 1, 1955 he was appointed special professor at the University of Leiden, which he took up on January 27, 1956 with the speech De veelvoudigheit of atomic nuclei and held until 1984.

He was also the curator of the Natural History Collection at the Teylers Museum in Haarlem .

For his scientific merits he became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts of Belgium . He was also awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Lisbon , the University of Liège and the Maria Curie Skłodowska University in Lublin.

Finally, in 1997, he and his PhD student Xiaochun Sun published The Chinese sky during the Han: constellating stars and society .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ Doktorzy honorowi UMCS Lublin, accessed on November 20, 2015
  3. ↑ Xiaochun Sun, Jacob Kistemaker (ed.): The Chinese Sky During the Han: Constellating Stars and Society . tape 38 . Brill, Leiden 1997, ISBN 90-04-10737-1 (English, limited preview in Google book search).
personal data
SURNAME Kistemaker, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kistemaker, Jaap
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolhorn
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2010
Place of death Bilthoven