Arend Joan Rutgers, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Arend Joan Rutgers

Dutch chemist

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1903

Place of Birth: Almelo, Overijssel, Netherlands

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1998

Profession: physicist, chemist

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Arend Joan Rutgers (October 20, 1903 in Almelo, Netherlands – September 2, 1998 in Almen) was a Dutch-Belgian physical chemist. Arend Joan Rutgers went to high school in Almelo, after which he studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam.
He later obtained his master's degree in 1926 he went to Leiden, where he studied theoretical physics under Paul Ehrenfest.
In 1930, he obtained his Ph.D.
from the University of Leiden and completed a thesis titled "Bijdrage tot de theorie der thermoelectriciteit in kristallen." (Contribution to the theory of thermo-electricity in crystals).
In 1931, he returned to Amsterdam and worked as a research assistant. In 1933, he became a lecturer at Ghent University in Belgium.
In 1938, he was promoted to full professor, and he remained in Ghent until his retirement in 1974.
Most of his scientific research was on colloids and surface chemistry, focussing on electrokinetics. Rutgers was elected a correspondent of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948.