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Burgers, Johannes Martinus

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Johannes Martinus Burgers (∗January 13, 1895, in Arnhem, Netherlands; †June 7, 1981 in Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) was a physicist with contributions to fluid and solid mechanics.

Early Years and Education

Johannes Martinus Burgers grew up, together with his brother, the physicist and crystallographer Willie Gerard Burgers, in Arnhem, Netherlands. In 1914, Burgers entered the University of Leiden, where he came to know Hendrik Lorentz, Albert Einstein, and Niels Bohr and was part of a group of students of Paul Ehrenfest. To complete his Ph.D. thesis in 1918, Burgers wrote his dissertation on the Rutherford-Bohr model of the atom, completing Ehrenfest’s work on the connection between the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantification rules and the adiabatic invariants of classical mechanics.

Professional Career

At the age of 23, before receiving his Ph.D., Burgers was appointed as Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shipbuilding, and Electrical Engineering at the Technical University...

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  1. Fakultät für Maschinenbau, Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Holm Altenbach

  2. Institute of Mechanics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Otto T. Bruhns

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    Holm Altenbach

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Altenbach, H., Bruhns, O.T. (2018). Burgers, Johannes Martinus. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_291-1

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