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Pieter van Musschenbroek

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Dutch naturalist (1692-1761)

ScientistsLived 1692 to 1761 · aged 69
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Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy.

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An early 20th-century illustration of a Leyden jar.An early 20th-century illustration of a Leyden jar.Physicae experimentales et geometricae dissertationes, 1755Physicae experimentales et geometricae dissertationes, 1755Figures in Institutiones physicae conscriptae in usus academicos (1748)Figures in Institutiones physicae conscriptae in usus academicos (1748)

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Fellow of the Royal Society

Scientists born in the 1690s 6

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Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. His pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts made him one of the first scientists to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing in 1729. An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his described in the 1739 paper.

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Lived 1692 to 1761 · aged 69
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