Education
Van der Political studied physics in Utrecht, and in 1920 he was awarded his doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy). He studied experimental physics with John Ambrose Fleming and Sir J. J. Thomson in England.
Van der Political studied physics in Utrecht, and in 1920 he was awarded his doctorate (Doctor of Philosophy). He studied experimental physics with John Ambrose Fleming and Sir J. J. Thomson in England.
He joined Philips Research Labs in 1921, where he worked until his retirement in 1949. His main interests were in radio wave propagation, theory of electrical circuits, and mathematical physics. The Van der Political oscillator, one of the most widely used models of nonlinear self-oscillation, is named after him.
The asteroid 10443 van der Political was named after him.