# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-burgers
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:31:27.062Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-burgers"
name: "Jan Burgers"
slug: "jan-burgers"
description: "Johannes (Jan) 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 dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity."
tagline: "Dutch physicist (1895-1981)"
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birthDate: "1895-01-13"
deathDate: "1981-06-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump