1. Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
12 Facts About Hans Kramers
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Hans Kramers was born on 17 December 1894 in Rotterdam.
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In 1912 Hans Kramers finished secondary education in Rotterdam, and studied mathematics and physics at the University of Leiden, where he obtained a master's degree in 1916.
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Hans Kramers wanted to obtain foreign experience during his doctoral research, but his first choice of supervisor, Max Born in Gottingen, was not reachable because of the First World War.
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Hans Kramers worked for almost ten years in Bohr's group, becoming an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.
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Hans Kramers left Denmark in 1926 and returned to the Netherlands.
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Hans Kramers became a full professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, where he supervised Tjalling Koopmans.
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Hans Kramers is credited with introducing in 1948 the concept of renormalization into quantum field theory, although his approach was nonrelativistic.
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Hans Kramers was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam.
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Hans Kramers became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929, he was forced to resign in 1942.
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Hans Kramers was an International member of the American Philosophical Society.
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Hans Kramers won the Lorentz Medal in 1947 and Hughes Medal in 1951.