Kees Posthumus
Dutch chemist
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Kees Posthumus's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemistry University of Amsterdam
- Masters Chemistry University of Amsterdam
- PhD Chemistry Delft University of Technology
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kees Posthumus was a Dutch chemist. He was the second rector magnificus of the Eindhoven University of Technology. Biography Kees Posthumus was born in Harlingen, Friesland, as the son of a wholesaler in wood. He attended HBS and then went on to study chemistry at the University of Groningen. He attained his propaedeuse there, whereupon he moved to the University of Leiden to continue his studies. While there he came into contact with Albert Einstein and with Johan Huizinga . Upon gaining his engineering degree he took a teaching position at the Christian HBS in Leiden, while working on his doctorate under prof.dr. F.A.. Schreinemakers. While at the HBS he also made use of the HBS' lab to do experiments for his thesis; he was promoted in 1929 on the topic of Explosion areas in gaseous mixtures.
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