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Hendrik Casimir

1909 - 2000

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Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (15 July 1909 – 4 May 2000) was a Dutch physicist who made significant contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is best known for his work on the Casimir effect, which describes the attractive force between two uncharged plates in a vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. Hendrik Casimir is also known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hendrik Casimir has received more than 144,801 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia. Hendrik Casimir is the 434th most popular physicist (down from 392nd in 2019), the 379th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 320th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Dutch Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Hendrik Casimir ranks 434 out of 851. Before him are Robert J. Van de Graaff, Philip Morrison, Douglas Hofstadter, Mildred Dresselhaus, Bruno Rossi, and Giovanni Battista Amici. After him are Anatoli Bugorski, Vladimir Fock, Charles Galton Darwin, George Volkoff, Robert W. Wood, and Heinrich Rubens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Hendrik Casimir ranks 119. Before him are Gene Krupa, Indro Montanelli, August Derleth, Juan Vicente Pérez, Pavle Đurišić, and André Cayatte. After him are Shigeo Shingo, Dana Andrews, Lamberto Maggiorani, Stephen Cole Kleene, Juan José Nogués, and Jerzy Andrzejewski. Among people deceased in 2000, Hendrik Casimir ranks 92. Before him are Roger Peyrefitte, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Tito Puente, Terence McKenna, Steven Runciman, and Walter Krupinski. After him are Charles M. Schulz, George Volkoff, Ahmad Shamlou, Rabah Bitat, Domingos da Guia, and Ursula Kuczynski.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Hendrik Casimir ranks 379 out of 1,646. Before him are Albert van Ouwater (1415), Hendrick de Keyser (1565), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (1983), Jaap Stam (1972), Bennie Muller (1938), and Aagje Deken (1741). After him are Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten (1927), Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857), Floris II, Count of Holland (1091), Marc Overmars (1973), Cornelis Cort (1533), and Jan Joosten van Lodensteijn (1556).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Netherlands

Among physicists born in Netherlands, Hendrik Casimir ranks 17. Before him are Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920), Martinus J. G. Veltman (1931), Jan Ingenhousz (1730), Hans Kramers (1894), Samuel Goudsmit (1902), and Wander Johannes de Haas (1878). After him are Abraham Pais (1918), Willem Hendrik Keesom (1876), Dirk Coster (1889), Antonius van den Broek (1870), Balthasar van der Pol (1889), and Jan Burgers (1895).

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