Nationality Dutch Role Physicist Alma mater University of Leiden Education Leiden University | Doctoral advisor Paul Ehrenfest Fields Physicist Name Jan Burgers Awards ASME Medal | |
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Born January 13, 1895
Arnhem, Netherlands ( 1895-01-13 ) Institutions Delft University of Technology
University of Maryland Known for Burgers equation
Burgers material
Burgers vector Notable awards ASME Medal (1965)
Otto Laporte Award (1974) Died June 7, 1981, Washington, D.C., United States Books Flow Equations for Composite Gases, Experience and conceptual activity Residence Netherlands, United States of America | ||
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Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (January 13, 1895 – June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W. G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.
Jan Burgers was one of the co-founders of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 1946, and was its secretary-general from 1946 until 1952.
In 1931 he became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1955 he became foreign member.
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