Herman Zanstra

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Herman Zanstra is affiliated with the following schools: University of Amsterdam, University of Minnesota, Delft University of Technology, Leiden University

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PhD Astronomy Leiden University

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According to Wikipedia, Herman Zanstra was a Dutch astronomer. Zanstra was born near Heerenveen in Friesland. In 1917 he graduated with an Engineer's degree in chemical engineering from the Delft Institute of Technology. While working in Delft for four years, the last two as a high school teacher, he wrote a highly theoretical and mathematical paper on relative motion which he sent to William Francis Gray Swann. Swann, then offered him to earn a Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics with him at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, which he did in two years time by expanding on his paper . After another year with Swann, now in Chicago, and a year at various labs in the Netherlands and Germany and two months at Niels Bohr's lab in Copenhagen, he became a postdoc at Caltech. Here he wrote a famous paper, An Application of the Quantum Theory to the Luminosity of Diffuse Nebulae, which for the first time provided a quantitative method for understanding the luminosity of nebulas and comets.

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Herman Zanstra's Published Works

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An Application of the Quantum Theory to the Luminosity of Diffuse Nebulae (45)
A Study of Relative Motion in Connection with Classical Mechanics (1924) (24)
On the formation of condensations in a gaseous nebula (1955) (19)
On the Weakening of the Polarisation Effect by Collision Damping (1941) (19)
Thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and the universe (1968) (9)
Theory of a Polarisation Effect in Fraunhofer Lines Due to Oscillator Scattering (1941) (6)
Non-Coherent Scattering and the Absence of Polarization in Fraunhofer Lines (1946) (5)
Temperatures of Stars in Planetary Nebulæ (1928) (5)
An Attempt to Explain the Polarization in Hα and D3 for Prominences (1950) (5)
On scattering with redistribution and radiation pressure in a stationary nebula (1949) (4)
The Gaseous Nebula as a Quantum Counter (George Darwin Lecture) (1961) (4)
Recombination and the long duration of the Balmer spectrum (1946) (4)
The construction of reality : lectures on the philosophy of science,theory of knowledge and the relation between body,mind and personality (1962) (3)
Is religion refuted by physics or astronomy (1968) (3)
Radiation-Pressure in an Expanding Nebula (1934) (3)
The Expansion Hypothesis for Planetary Nebulæ (1932) (3)
Dynamics of radiation pressure for a diffuse nebula (1936) (3)
The construction of reality (1962) (3)
The Excitation of Line and Band Spectra in Comets by Sunlight (1928) (3)
Comparison of Gas and Radiation Pressure in the Problems of the Dynamics of Planetary Nebulae (1958) (3)
A possible test of the super-nova hypothesis for cosmic rays (1936) (2)
Results of the Dutch Cosmic Ray Expedition 1933: III. Absorption phenomena of corpuscular cosmic rays (1934) (2)
Magnetic deflection of cosmic rays in the equatorial plane (1936) (2)
A Remark on Erikson's Measurements of the Ionization by γ-Rays at Various Pressures and Potentials (1932) (1)
Experiments to Elucidate Scattering in the Sky and in Optical Instruments (1943) (1)
On the meaning of absolute systems in mechanics and physics (1946) (1)
The value of observations of continuous spectra in the chromosphere and prominences. (1950) (1)
VIII.—The Construction of Reality (1945) (0)
On radiative equilibrium and radiation pressure in a stationary nebula with an appendix by J. H. de Jong (1951) (0)
Temperature determinations for nuclei of thirteen planetary nebulae (Errata: 15 330) (1960) (0)
84. The Source of Luminosity of Gaseous Nebulae (1979) (0)
On the insufficiency of logically rigorous methods for communicating results of pure mathematics a subject for discussion (1972) (0)
On physical processes in Wolf-Rayet stars. Paper 1: Wolf-Rayet stars and Beals' hypothesis of pure recombination (Errata: 11 357) (1950) (0)
Some Hydrodynamical Experiments in Connection with Prominences (1939) (0)
Nebulae and the Expansion of the Universe (1945) (0)
On The Philosophical Meaning of Observational Errors (1974) (0)
The continuous spectrum of a prominence observed at the total solar eclipse of 1952 February 25. (1952) (0)

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