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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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References
- Nieuwstadt, F.T.M.; Steketee, J.A., eds. (1995). Selected Papers of J.M. Burgers. Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0-7923-3265-2.
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External links
- Johannes Martinus Burgers at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- A.J.Q. Alkemade, Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1895-1981), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. (in Dutch)
- "Johannes Martinus Burgers; 13 January 1895 to 7 June 1981", biography at the University of Maryland
- JM Burgers Centrum
- The Burgers program for fluid dynamics at the University of Maryland
- Oral History interview transcript with Johannes Burgers 9 June 1962, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives
- "On the emergence of patterns of order". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 69: 1-25. 1963. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1963-10832-0. MR 0143359. , 32nd Gibbs lecture delivered by Burgers at Philadelphia, Tuesday, 20 January 1959
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