Pieter van Musschenbroek, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pieter van Musschenbroek

scientist

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1692

Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1761

Profession: astronomer, physician, professor, astrologer, physicist, mathematician, surgeon, university teacher, instrument maker

Nationality: Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Pieter van Musschenbroek

  • Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist.
  • He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, where he held positions in mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy.
  • He is credited with the invention of the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
  • He performed pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts.
  • Musschenbroek was also one of the first scientists (1729) to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing.
  • An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity was described in the 1739 paper (in the form of the penetration of butter by a wooden stick subjected to impact by a wooden sphere).

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