Johannes Martinus Burgers
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Johannes Martinus Burgers (Arnhem, Netherlands, January 13, 1895 – Washington D.C., June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist and the brother of the physicist W.G. Burgers. Burgers studied in Leiden under Paul Ehrenfest, where he obtained his PhD in 1918. He is credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.
[edit] External links
- A.J.Q. Alkemade, Burgers, Johannes Martinus (1895-1981), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland.
- JM Burgers Centrum
- The Burgers program for fluid dynamics at the University of Maryland
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