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About Gordon Van Wylen
- Gordon John Van Wylen (born February 6, 1920) is an American physicist and author of textbooks on thermodynamics.
- He was chair of the physics department at the University of Michigan from 1969 to 1972 and President of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, from 1972 to 1987.
- He was born in Grant, Michigan.
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