Jan Burgers
Dutch physicist
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Johannes Martinus Burgers was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist Wilhelm G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is known for the Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in... Wikipedia
Born: January 13, 1895, Arnhem, Netherlands
Died: June 7, 1981 (age 86 years), Washington, D.C.
Awards: ASME Medal (1965) and Otto Laporte Award (1974)
