Died 2000-05-04.
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Hendrik Casimir
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir was a Dutch physicist who made significant contributions to the field of quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics. He is best known for his work on the Casimir effect, which describes the attractive force between two uncharged plates in a vacuum due to quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field.
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science · Dutch physicist (1909–2000) · physicist · mathematician · university teacher · also Hendrik Casimir, Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, H.B.G. Casimir (Kasimier), Casimir
Born 15 July 1909 · Died 4 May 2000 · Q535748
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2000· 1 entry
1999· 1 entry
Awarded George E. Pake Prize (1999).
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1985· 1 entry
Won Matteucci Medal (1985).
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1982· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1982).
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1979· 1 entry
Was one of the key speakers at CERN's 25th anniversary celebrations
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Maxwell Lecture (1976).
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Won IRI Medal (1976).
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1975· 1 entry
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (1975).
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1970· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1970).
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded Three Physicists Prize (1957).
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1948· 2 entries
Casimir, collaborating with Dirk Polder, predicted the quantum mechanical attraction between conducting plates now known as the Casimir effect, which has important consequences in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
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Published “The Influence of Retardation on the London-van der Waals Forces” in Physical Review — cited 2,669 times.
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1946· 2 entries
And a member of the board of directors of the company in 1956
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Became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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1945· 1 entry
Wrote a well-known paper on Lars Onsager's principle of microscopic reversibility
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1942· 1 entry
During World War II, Casimir moved to the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium (Philips Physics Laboratory, NatLab) in Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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1938· 1 entry
Casimir became a physics professor at Leiden University
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-07-15.
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