Nestor Joseph Trappeniers

Nestor Joseph Trappeniers (born August 26, 1922 in Zaventem , Belgium , † July 16, 2004 in Huizen ) was a Belgian-Dutch chemist.

He was the son of the politician Isadoor Trappeniers (mayor of Zaventem and later in the Belgian Senate ). He went to high school in Brussels and studied chemistry at the Free University of Brussels with the candidate exam in 1942 and - interrupted by the Second World War, in which he was a soldier in England and his future wife (marriage 1948) Mari Faulkner - the licentiate in 1946. He received his doctorate summa cum laude in 1952 with a dissertation on chemistry at high pressures with Jean Émile Charles Timmermans (and Ilya Prigogine ) . As a post-doctoral student he worked with Prigogine and at the Van der Waals Laboratory at the University of Amsterdam at AMJF Michels. In 1954 he became professor of physical chemistry at the University of Groningen and in 1961 as the successor to Michels professor in Amsterdam. He expanded the investigation area of ​​the Van der Waals Laboratory, which dealt with physics and chemistry at high pressures (especially thermodynamic and transport properties), with NMR methods and temperatures that are too low. In 1987 he retired.

In 1985 he received the Bridgman Award . He had been a member of the Dutch Academy of Sciences since 1974 and he was a member of the Royal Norwegian Academy of Sciences since 1977. In 1988 he became a knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion .

He had 43 PhD students and published over 180 scientific papers.

literature

• Special issue of Physica A, Volume 156, 1989, p. 1

Web links

• Biography Portal of Netherlands