# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hugo-christiaan-hamaker
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:17:11.846Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hugo-christiaan-hamaker"
name: "Hugo Christiaan Hamaker"
slug: "hugo-christiaan-hamaker"
description: "Hugo Christiaan Hamaker, or Huug Hamaker, was a Dutch physical chemist and applied statistician. He was responsible for the Hamaker theory which explains the van der Waals forces between objects larger than molecules."
tagline: "Dutch physicist (1905-1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hamaker.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1905-03-23"
deathDate: "1993-09-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Hugo Christiaan Hamaker"
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    title: "Гуго Крістіан Гамакер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump