Richard van Rees

Richard van Rees

Richard van Rees (also: Rijk van Rees ; * May 24, 1797 in Nijmegen ; † August 23, 1875 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch mathematician and physicist .

Life

Richard was the son of Otto van Rees (* June 25, 1758 in Niemegen; † March 16, 1804 ibid) and his wife Jacoba Hendrika Harlingh (* 1761; † March 2, 1837 in Utrecht). After his father died, his mother moved to Utrecht, where Richard attended the French school and, in 1809, the grammar school. Rees enrolled at Utrecht University on October 1, 1813 to study medical sciences. Due to the war events, however, the studies were interrupted and Rees took part in the company of volunteer hunters in the wars of liberation in 1815 . He then continued his studies with Nicolaas Cornelis de Fremery , Gerard Moll , Johannes Friedrich Ludwig Schröder , Jan Kops , Bernardus Franciscus Suerman and Jan Bleuland . In doing so, he developed a fondness for mathematics and physics. After he had won a prize in 1817 with a mathematical treatise, he received his doctorate on December 17, 1819 with the mathematical work De celeritate soni per fluida elastica propagati to the philosophical doctor of the natural sciences.

This work had also earned him recognition from abroad, so that he was appointed an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Liège . He entered this task on October 4, 1821 with the introductory speech De veterum recentiorumque in tractanda mathesi ratione et laudibus . After he had received an honorary doctorate in medicine in Utrecht on June 14, 1821 , he became a full professor in August 1825, which task he took over with the speech Prudenti mechanices rationalis usu in disciplinis technologicis . After he had been secretary of the senate of the Liège university in 1825/26, he became rector of the university in 1826/27. He stayed in Liège until the events of the Belgian Revolution of 1830. Rees received an appointment as adjunct professor of mathematics and physics on March 6, 1831 and took up the position on March 25, 1831. After his former teacher Moll died, on February 25, 1838, he was appointed full professor of the subject. On March 26, 1838 he took over this task.

In Utrecht he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the alma mater in 1838/39 . In 1839 he gave up his professorship in astronomy. On 11 May 1867 he was out of his chair emeritus . Nevertheless, he continued to give private lectures. Rees was a member of several learned societies. He became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences on October 11, 1827, and a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences on October 26, 1851 , of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique in 1830 , and of the Société Royale des Sciences de Liège in 1845 , 1853 honorary member of the mathematical society Een onvermoeide Arbeid komt alles te boven in Amsterdam. He was also a member of the Provinciaal Utrechts Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen and the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in Haarlem. In 1841 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion , in 1853 Commander of the Order of the Oak Crown and in 1867 Commander of the Belgian Order of Leopold .

family

Rees has been married twice. His first marriage was on September 27, 1824 in Gorssel with Jacoba Ebertina de Casembroot (born August 25, 1805 in Wijk near Duurstede, † September 17, 1828 in Liège), the daughter of Leonard de Casembrood and Adriana Johanna van Neukirchen . From the marriage comes the son Otto van Rees (* December 25, 1825 in Luik, † May 16, 1868 in Utrecht), who became Professor of Law in Groningen and Utrecht and was married to Johanna Maria Constancia Vreede.

His second marriage was on November 26, 1840 in Muiden with Woltera Elisabeth Koch (born September 6, 1810 in Amsterdam, † November 18, 1841 in Utrecht), the daughter of Egbertus Johannes Koch and Susanna Maria Crommelin. From this marriage comes the daughter Woltera Bertha Johanna van Rees (born November 2, 1841 in Utrecht; † August 2, 1926 ibid).

Works

• Disquisitio de compositione acidi carbonici in vegetatione. 1818 (Annales Acad. 1817-1818).
• Tentamina mathematica de cubatura segmenti ellipsoidis, auctoribus RC van Tuyl van Serooskerkcn et R. van Rees. Utrecht 1819
• Dissertatio physico mathematica inauguralis, de celeritate soni per fluida elastica propogati. 17 Dec 1819.
• Oratio inauguralis de veterum recentiorumque in tractanda ma.thesi ratione et laudibus. 4 Oct 1821 (Ann. Acad. Leodiensis 1820-21.)
• Oratio inauguralis, de prudenti mechanices rationalis usis in disciplinis technologicis. 29 Oct. 1825 (Annales Acad. Leodiensis 1825-1826.)
• Oratio de rerum incertarum probabilitate, quatenus mathematicorum calculus subjicitur. 8 Oct. 1827 (Ann. Acad. Leodiensis 1826–1827.)
• Oratio de Jano Bleulando. Trajecti ad Rhenum 26 Mart. 1839. (Annales Acad. 1838-1839.)

In: Correspondance mathématique et physique, publiée par Garnier et Quetelel (1825-1830).

• Analysis de l'ouvrage de M. le Prof. de Gelder "Proeve over de positieve en negatieve grootheden." 'S Gravenhage 1825. I.
• Note on l'influence du vent dans la propagation du sou. II.
• Note sur l'intégration des equations linéaires. II.
• Sur les limits des racines des equations littérales du troisième degré. Tome V.
• Memoire on the focales. Tome VI.
• Sur la convergence des séries et des produits continus. Tome VI.
• Sur l'analyse des fonctions angulaires. Tome VI.

In: nieuwe negotiating the 1st class of the Kon. Ned. Institute.

• Over de getijën aan de kusten van Nederland. deel VII (1838).
• Over de verdeeling van het magnetism in staalmagneten en electromagneten. VII (1846). (Also in Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik. Volume 70)

In tijdschrift: Het Instituut, het Kon. Ned.

• Over de hoeveelheid waterdamp, withered bij de vermenging van twee vochtige luchtmassa's van ongelijke temperatuur wordt nedergeslagen (1844.)
• Over de electrische eigenschappen der vlammen (1846) (Also in Poggendorffs Ann. Vol. 73).

In: werken van het Provinciaal Utrechtsch Genootschap

• Uitkomsten der meteorologische Waarnemingen gedaan te Utrecht in de jaren 1839-1843 (jaargang 1844)

In: de Kunst- en Letterbode

• Levens report by G. Moll (1838).
• Berigt the ontmoeting van eenen ijsberg in the Atlantic Ocean (1841).

In: Johann Christian Poggendorffs Annalen der Physik.

• Two meteor falls in Holland, one new and one older. (1843) Volume 59
• About the Electric Flame Effect (1848) Volume 74

In: N. Negotiations of the Ve class van het Kon. Ned. Institute.

• Meteorological warning by JK Husskant op drie reizen van en naar Oost-Indiën in 1843-46 (1848) deel 12.
• Over de verdeeling van het magnetismus in magnets (1848) deel 12. (Also in Poggendorffs Annalen der Physik. Vol. 74).

In: Tijdschrift voor de wis- en natuurkundige wetenschappen, uitgegeven door het Kon. Ned. Institute.

• Over de electromotorische kracht the galvanic chain uit één metaal en twee vochen (1851) 4e deel.

In: Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.

• Over de theory of the magnetic krachtlijnen van Faraday. (1853) 1st Deel. (Also in Poggendorff's Annalen der Physik Vol. 90)

In: Verslagen en Mededeelingen of the Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen.

• Over de verstrooijing van het licht (1855) deel 4.
• Over de zijdelingsche ontlading der electriciteit (1859) deel 9.
• Over de analogie van de theories of electrostatic influentie of galvanic strooms en der warmtegeleiding (1863) deel 15.
• Over electrische spanning en potentiaal (1865) deel 1.

literature

• Eisso Atzema: Richard van Rees (1797-1875). In: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandse Wiskundigen. September 2008, archived from the original on August 13, 2011 (Dutch). 
• Cornelis Hubertus Carolus Grinwis : Het leven van den hoogleeraar R. van Rees. Speech, uitgesproken bij het nederleggen van het rectoraat of the Utrechtsche Hoogeschool, 28th May 1876. Kemink Utrecht 1876
• Alphonse Le Hoy: Liber mémorialis: l'Université de Liège depuis sa fondation. Verlag JG Carmanne, Lüttich, 1869, Sp. 738, ( online )

Web links

• Rees in the Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Rees at the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW)
• Genealogy link