Education
Hamer received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands in 1956.
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Career
He authored three chemistry books and was listed in Who"s Who in the South and Southwest. He had a deep interest in classical music, history, horticulture, and cooking. Hamer was born to Gerard Pieter Hamer and Wijke Hamer-de Boer in Gombong, Indonesia.
He moved with his family to The Hague.
Netherlands. He returned to Indonesia in 1952 and served for three years as a second lieutenant and commander of a foot battalion for the Royal Netherlands military. On March 20, 1956, Hamer married the former Millicent May (born April 10, 1926) of New Orleans.
Hamer died in a hospice in Baton Rouge. Services were held on July 30 at the Audubon Park Golf Clubhouse in New Orleans.
January and Millicent Hamer"s photograph and story of survival during Hurricane Katrina was featured in the 2007 book (University of Missouri Press), Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina by Thomas Neff, a photographer and a professor of art at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
Membership
He was a member of the Round Table Club and the Holland Club, both in New Orleans.
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July 25, 2008 (aged 81)