Archive Hendrik de Waard

Number of the collection: UBG 083

Callnumber: uklu 083 De Waard

Description of the archive made by: Jettie Noordam-Noorman, 2023

Brief overview

Name of the archive: H., de Waard, (1922-2008), physicist.

Provenance: Waard, Hendrik de (1922-2008).

Dated: 1950-1996

Size: ? m

Language of the materials: Dutch, English

Summary: Scientific archive of Hendrik de Waard (1905-1999), physicist.

Institute: University Library Groningen

Retainer: University Library Groningen

Provenance and acquisition

Biography: Hendrik de Waard (Groningen, 20 April 1922 - Groningen, 11 August 2008) was a Dutch physicist. He attended the Praedinius Gymnasium (1934-1940), and he studied at the University of Groningen (1940-1949), except for two years during World War II. His earliest research concerned atomic physics, and after the war he focused his studies on demonstrating the polarisation of electrons.

In 1948, he turned to the field nuclear spectroscopy, and in 1954 he received his PhD with a thesis entitled Scintillation coincidence studies of the decay of 181Hf and 193Os and the isomerism of odd proton nuclei. After a stay in Sweden (as a lecturer at the University of Uppsala) and Finland, where he conducted pioneering research, he returned to Groningen in 1955. There he held the chair of experimental physics at the university from 1956. In 1958, this was followed by a full professorship in the same subject.

In 1962, he was a guest professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Here he began to research the subject of Mössbauer spectroscopy. Once De Waard was back in Groningen, he expanded this research together with Dr. S.A. Drentje. De Waard spent forty years of his life studying the Mössbauer effect. This made him one of the earliest researchers to study this phenomenon. Later on, he focused on magnetism in bacteria, in particular magnetotactic bacteria, together with Professor Richard Frankel.

Acquisition: Unknown

Future additions: No future additions are expected.

Contents and collation: Correspondence, reports, articles.

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Accessibility

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Citations

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Archive: University Library Hendrik de Waard

Individual items: Groningen UB 083

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