Wander Johannes de Haas
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 Wander Johannes de Haas (1878-1960)
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| Born | March 2, 1878 Lisse, Netherlands |
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| Died | April 26, 1960 (aged 82) Bilthoven, Netherlands |
| Residence |  Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Physicist |
| Institutions | University of Leiden |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Doctoral advisor | Heike Kamerlingh Onnes |
| Other academic advisors | Johannes Petrus Kuenen |
| Doctoral students | Frits Karel du Pré Cornelis Jacobus Gorter Gerardus J. Sizoo |
| Known for | de Haas-van Alphen effect Shubnikov-de Haas effect Einstein-de Haas effect |
Wander Johannes de Haas (March 2, 1878, Lisse – April 26, 1960, Bilthoven) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov-de Haas effect, the de Haas-van Alphen effect and the Einstein-de Haas effect.
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[edit] Education
After attending high school in Middelburg, de Haas started paralegal studies in 1895. After completion of two of three parts of the examinations and having worked in a lawyer's office for some time, he decided to change career and become a physicist instead. After passing the qualifications exams for admission to University, he started to study physics at the University of Leiden in 1900 under H. Kamerlingh Onnes and J.P. Kuenen. He earned his doctorate in 1912, under H. Kamerlingh Onnes, with a thesis entitled: Measurements on the Compressibility of Hydrogen.
[edit] Personal life
Wander de Haas was born in Lisse, a small town near Leiden, son of Albertus de Haas, principal of the Teacher's College in Middelburg, and Maria Efting. On December 22, 1910 he married Geertruida Luberta Lorentz, the eldest daughter of Hendrik Lorentz. They had two daughters and two sons.
[edit] Career
An example of the equipment (an electromagnet of c.1930) used for his low-temperature research can be seen in the Boerhaave Museum, the history of science museum in Leiden.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- de Hass' math genealogy
- Albert van Helden, Biography, Wander Johannes de Haas 1878–1960 (Digital Library of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences [1]). Originally published in: K. van Berkel, A. van Helden and L. Palm, ed., A History of Science in The Netherlands, Survey, Themes and Reference, pp. 454–456 (Leiden, Brill, 1999).
- Wander Johannes de Haas, 1878–1960 @ Instituut-Lorentz for theoretical physics
- J. van den Handel, Haas, Wander Johannes de (1878–1960), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
