Jan Beenakker
Dutch physicist and rector
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- PhD Physics Leiden University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joannes Joseph Maria Beenakker , more often known as Jan J. M. Beenakker or Jan Beenakker, was a Dutch physicist and the rector of the Leiden University. Education and career Beenakker was the son of a railway employee and grew up in Zeeland and Rotterdam. In 1942 he obtained his Abitur, but because of the Second World War he was only able to start studying physics at Leiden University in 1945. In 1951, after intermittent military service, he received his diploma in meteorology and in 1954 he received his doctorate in low temperature physics from Cornelis Jacobus Gorter and Krijn Wybren Taconis from the Kamerlingh-Onnes Laboratory at Leiden University. His dissertation was on the influence of the helium-3 isotope on superconductivity. Beenakker remained in Leiden after graduation, where he became a lecturer in 1959 and a full professor of experimental physics in 1963. From 1985 until his retirement in 1991 he was rector magnificus of the Leiden University. Between 1969 and 1970, Beenakker was on sabbatical at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 1961 and 1962 visiting professor at the KU Leuven.
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