Education
Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1918.
physicist university professor
Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in 1918.
He is credited to be the father of Burgers" equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity. January Burgers was one of the co-founders of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) in 1946, and was its secretary-general from 1946 until 1952.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
