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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.
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Christopher C. KraftAlso won ASME Medal
Geoffrey Ingram TaylorAlso won Panetti Ferrari Award
George David BirkhoffAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
Henry EyringAlso won Bingham MedalMartin SchwarzschildAlso won Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
John Harlan KimAlso won Otto Laporte AwardAbout this person
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Scientists
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Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1895 to 1981 · aged 86
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