1887 - 1974
Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen Dutch Physicist
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Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen was born on this day 86 years ago
Born 3rd July, 1887.
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| Birthday |
3rd July, 1887
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| Birthplace |
The Hague
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| Died |
26th February, 1974
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| Place of Death |
Delft
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
Dutch
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| Occupation |
Physicist
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Hendrika Johanna van Leeuwen (July 3, 1887 – February 26, 1974) was a Dutch physicist known for her early contributions to the theory of magnetism. She studied at Leiden University under the guidance of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, obtaining her doctorate in 1919. Her thesis explained why magnetism is an essentially quantum mechanical effect, a result now referred to as the Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem. (Niels Bohr had arrived at the same conclusion a few years earlier.) She continued to investigate magnetic materials at the "Technische Hogeschool Delft" (now called the Delft University of Technology), first as "assistant" between September 1920 and April 1947, and then she was promoted to "lector in de theoretische en toegepaste natuurkunde" (reader in theoretical and applied physics).
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