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Hendrik Casimir

1909 - 2000

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Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (15 July 1909 – 4 May 2000) was a Dutch physicist who made significant contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is best known for his work on the Casimir effect, which describes the attractive force between two uncharged plates in a vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Hendrik Casimir is also known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hendrik Casimir is the 460th most popular physicist (down from 435th in 2019), the 419th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 379th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hendrik Casimir ranks 460 out of 851. Before him are Leonard Susskind, Anatole Abragam, Rudolf Peierls, Erich Hückel, Marie Alfred Cornu, and Johanna Budwig. After him are Clarence Zener, Jürgen Ehlers, Carlo Matteucci, Walter Heitler, Berta Karlik, and Rashid Sunyaev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hendrik Casimir ranks 133. Before him are Gerhard Gentzen, Morris Swadesh, André Cayatte, Dean Rusk, Milena Pavlović-Barili, and Marie-Thérèse Walter. After him are Kinuyo Tanaka, Ben Webster, Sylvère Maes, Guy de Rothschild, Jerzy Andrzejewski, and Mahmoud Mohammed Taha. Among people deceased in 2000, Hendrik Casimir ranks 110. Before him are John O'Connor, Christian Marquand, Terence McKenna, Leonidas Pyrgos, Andy Hug, and Kemal Sunal. After him are Domingos da Guia, Bernhard Wicki, Aristidis Konstantinidis, Claude Autant-Lara, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, and Walter Krupinski.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik Casimir ranks 419 out of 1,646. Before him are Karel Dujardin (1622), Pieter Bleeker (1819), Giovanni van Bronckhorst (1975), Dirk I, Count of Holland (875), Kees Rijvers (1926), and Cornelis Engebrechtsz. (1468). After him are Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Louis Couperus (1863), Lou Ottens (1926), Jan van Huysum (1682), Roche Braziliano (1630), and Theo de Jong (1947).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Hendrik Casimir ranks 16. Before him are Frits Zernike (1888), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), and Samuel Goudsmit (1902). After him are Wander Johannes de Haas (1878), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), Abraham Pais (1918), Jan Burgers (1895), and Dirk Coster (1889).

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