Johannes Petrus Kuenen

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Johannes Petrus Kuenen
painting by Jan Veth , 1922

Johannes Petrus Kuenen (born October 11, 1866 in Leiden ; † September 25, 1922 there ) was a Dutch physicist.

Life

Johannes Peter was the son of the professor of theology in Leiden Abraham Kuenen . After attending the municipal grammar school in his hometown , he enrolled at the University of Leiden on September 26, 1884 to study natural history. Here were Hendrik Lorentz and Kamerlingh Onnes his teacher. Kuenen received his doctorate on April 12, 1892 with the work Metingen concerning het oppervlak van Van der Waals voor mengsels van koolzuur en chloromethyl (German: Measurements of Van der Waals forces on the surface for mixtures of carbon dioxide and methyl chloride ). After working as an assistant to Kamerlingh Onnes from 1890, he became a conservator at the natural history laboratory of the Leiden University in 1893. In 1895 he received a professorship in physics at the University of Dundee and made a name for himself in researching the state of materials in the liquefaction and solidification of helium. In 1896 he was elected a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh .

On December 22, 1906 he was appointed professor of physics at the University of Leiden, which task he took on on February 25, 1907 with the introductory speech Het tegenwoordig standpunt en de beteekenis der molekulair theorie (German: The current point of view and the meaning of the molecular theory ) . In 1911 he became a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences , in 1915 a member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem , a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metrological Institute in De Bilt and a member of the Reich Commission for Soil and Water Surveying. In 1922 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Padua , was elected rector of the Alma Mater on September 18 of the same year , but died unexpectedly during that term of office.

family

Kuenen married on July 11, 1896 in Leiden with Dora Wicksteed (September 1873 - April 18, 1961 in Leiden), the daughter of economics professor Philip Henry Wicksteed (October 25, 1844 in Leeds - March 18, 1927 in Childrey ) and his wife Mary Emma Solly. There are three sons and two daughters from the marriage. From the children we know:

  • Mary Frances Kuenen (born May 23, 1897 in Dundee) married. September 5, 1931 in London with John Henry Burns
  • William Abraham Kuenen (born September 12, 1899 in Dundee) married. with J. Worsley (Ottery St. Mary (England))
  • Philip Henry Kuenen (born July 22, 1902 in Dundee, † December 17, 1976 in Leiden) married. April 2, 1932 in The Hague with Charlotte Suzanna Wilhelmina Pijzel (born May 18, 1909 in Amsterdam, † March 30, 1967 in Groningen)
  • Emily Wiepkje Dorothea Kuenen (born September 14, 1906 in Dundee, † August 14, 1988 in Eindhoven) married. July 9, 1934 in Leiden with Hugo Christiaan Hamaker (born March 23, 1905 in Broek; † September 7, 1993 in Eindhoven)
  • Donald Johan Kuenen (born March 19, 1912 in Leiden; † September 21, 1995 in Oegstgeest), Professor of Zoology, m. September 29, 1939 in The Hague with Louisa Johanna Theodora Janssens (born November 24, 1911 in Den Helder; † May 27, 2002 in Oegstgeest)

Works

  • Over de continuïteit van den gas- en vloeistoftoestand. 1873
  • Theory of evaporation and liquefaction by chemical and fractional distillation. Leipzig 1906
  • The equation of state of gas and liquids and the continuity theory. Brunswick 1907
  • Natuurwetenschap en godsdienstig looped. Baarn 1911

literature

  • HAM. Snelders: Kuenen, Johannes Petrus (1866-1922). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederland. The Hague, 1985, Vol. 2 ( online )
  • Laurentius Knappert: Dr. Johannes Petrus Kuenen †. In: Jaarboekje voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde van Leiden en Omstreken. AW Sijthoff, Leiden, 1924, pp. XXXV-XXXVIII
  • Prof. JP Kuenen †. In: De Telegraaf. September 25, 1922 ( online )
  • CA Crommelin: In Memoriam Prof. Dr. JP Kuenen. In: De Telegraaf. September 29, 1922, p. 3 ( online )
  • Prof. JP Kuenen. † In: Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant. September 25, 1922, p. 3 ( online )

Web links

  • Kuenen at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
  • Kuenen at the Digital Library of Dutch Literature (DBNL)
  • Kuenen in the professorial catalog of the University of Leiden
  • Genealogy link accessed on December 19, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows Directory. Biographical Index: Former RSE Fellows 1783–2002. (PDF file) Royal Society of Edinburgh, accessed December 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuenen, Johannes Petrus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 1922
Place of death Suffer