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Jan Beenakker was born on 1 February, 1926 in Koog aan de Zaan, The Netherlands, is a Dutch physicist and rector (1926–1998). Discover Jan Beenakker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 1 February, 1926
Birthday 1 February
Birthplace Koog aan de Zaan, The Netherlands
Date of death 23 July, 1998
Died Place Leiden, The Netherlands
Nationality The Netherlands

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1926

Joannes Joseph Maria Beenakker (February 1, 1926, in Koog aan de Zaan – July 23, 1998, in Leiden), more often known as Jan J. M. Beenakker or Jan Beenakker, was a Dutch physicist and the rector of the Leiden University.

Beenakker was the son of a railway employee and grew up in Zeeland and Rotterdam.

1927

Beenakker was married to Elena Manaresi (1927 – 2009) and had three sons from the marriage, Carlo Beenakker, Jan Willem Beenakker, and Peter Beenakker.

1942

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.

1951

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.

1959

Beenakker remained in Leiden after graduation, where he became a lecturer in 1959 and a full professor of experimental physics in 1963.

1961

Between 1961 and 1962 visiting professor at the KU Leuven.

His research dealt with the thermodynamic and transport properties of liquids and gases.

The Senftleben-Beenakker effects are named after him and the German physicist Hermann Senftleben, which describe the influence of electric and magnetic fields on the transport properties (thermal conductivity, viscosity) of molecular gases.

It bears a distant resemblance to the Hall effect in solids.

From earlier experiments by Senftleben it was believed that this only affected paramagnetic molecules such as nitric oxide and oxygen, but Beenakker and his colleague Hein Knaap showed that diamagnetic gases such as nitrogen and methane are also affected by external fields (but they should have a non-spherical shape have), since the precession rate between two collisions of the molecules is changed by them.

Beenakker also studied transport in highly diluted gases, in which boundary layer phenomena play a role and new phenomena emerge (viscomagnetic heat flow, thermomagnetic pressure difference).

With colleagues, he was the first to observe the non-equilibrium velocity distribution in a heat-conducting gas.

He was chairman of the Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Matter (FOM), a Dutch research foundation for basic research.

1969

Between 1969 and 1970, Beenakker was on sabbatical at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

1978

He became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978.

He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo, became a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion and an officer in the Belgian Order of the Crown.

1985

From 1985 until his retirement in 1991 he was rector magnificus of the Leiden University.