Pieter Merkus Lambertus Tammes
Pieter Merkus Lambertus "Bruin" Tammes (born July 5, 1903 in Jakarta , † December 15, 1980 in Wageningen ) was a Dutch botanist and visual artist. He is the namesake for the Tammes problem in mathematics.
Life
Tammes was born in 1903 in Batavia (today: Jakarta) in what was then the Dutch East Indies (today: Indonesia). From 1923 to 1930 he studied and obtained his doctorate at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In 1930 he returned to the Dutch East Indies and probably stayed there until 1949, after Indonesia's sovereignty. From 1950 to 1969 he was director at the Institute for Insecticide Research at Wageningen University . He died in 1980.
He received his artistic training from Johan D. Scherft. His landscape paintings, drawings and etchings are well known.
Tammes problem
Tammes' dissertation dealt with the indentations on pollen grains . A scientific essay emerged from this in 1930. The Tammes problem in mathematics is about the distribution of non-overlapping circles on a spherical surface.
Honors
Tammes was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ PML Tammes: On the number and arrangements of the places of exit on the surface of pollen-grains . In: Recueil Travais Botaniques Nederlandais . tape 27 , no. 1 , 1930, p. 1-84 .
- ↑ former members of KNAW
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tammes, Pieter Merkus Lambertus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tammes, Bruin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch botanist and visual artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jakarta |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 15, 1980 |
| Place of death | Wageningen |