Nico van Kampen
Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen (called Nico van Kampen, mostly cited as NG van Kampen ; born June 22, 1921 in Leiden ; † October 6, 2013 in Nieuwegein ) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who dealt with statistical physics.
Career
Van Kampen studied at the University of Leiden , where he received his doctorate under Hendrik Anthony Kramers in 1952 ( Contributions to the quantum theory of light scattering ), the dissertation being written at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht , where he had been active since 1955.
In 1952/53 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study .
Van Kampen made fundamental contributions to the statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes (including the master equation ) and in many-particle theory (especially in plasma physics). His preoccupation with non-equilibrium processes began in the group of SR de Groot (the successor of Kramers) in Leiden in 1953.
He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
Nobel laureate Gerardus' t Hooft is a nephew of Van Kampen.
Fonts
- Views of a physicist. Selected papers of NG van Kampen , World Scientific 2000 (editor Paul HE Meijer)
- Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry , North Holland 1981, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-444-89349-0
- with BU Felderhof: Theoretical methods in plasma physics , North Holland 1967, ISBN 0-7204-0120-8
- Entropy , Plus Lucis, 1997
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ In it, he showed how singularities can be treated in quantum mechanical scattering processes, which was an important step in the development of renormalization by Kramer.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kampen, Nico van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kampen, Nicolaas Godfried van (full name); Kampen, NG van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suffer |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 2013 |
| Place of death | Nieuwegein |