Jan Burgers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Dutch physicist
Date of Birth: 13-Jan-1895
Place of Birth: Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 07-Jun-1981
Profession: physicist, university teacher
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Jan Burgers
- 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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