Dirk Coster ( Dutch. Dirk Coster , October 5, 1889 , Amsterdam - February 12, 1950 , Groningen ) is a Dutch physicist .
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| Date of Birth | October 5, 1889 |
| Place of Birth | Amsterdam |
| Date of death | February 12, 1950 (60 years old) |
| A place of death | Groningen |
| A country | Netherlands |
| Scientific field | physics |
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| Alma mater | Leiden University |
| supervisor | Paul Ehrenfest |
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| Known as | one of the discoverers of hafnium |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Scientific activities
- 3 Publications
- 4 Literature
Biography
Bonfire was born in Amsterdam as the third child in a working class family. In 1908 he graduated from Haarlem College of Education, until 1913 he worked as a teacher. At the same time he attended lectures at the University of Leiden , where he was greatly influenced by P. Ehrenfest and which he graduated in 1916 . In 1916–20 he worked as an assistant to V. de Haas at Delft University of Technology , in 1920–22 he worked with M. Sigban at Lund University . In 1922 he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University of Leiden . In 1922–23 he worked at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen , and from 1924 he held a professorship at the University of Groningen . In 1934 he was elected a full member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
In 1938, L. Meitner helped to move from Nazi Germany to Sweden , during the Second World War he took an active part in saving the Jewish population.
Scientific activity
Coster's scientific works are devoted to atomic and nuclear physics , X-ray spectroscopy , and neutron physics . In 1923, together with D. Heveshi discovered the 72nd element - hafnium .
Publications
- D. Bonfire. Beats of the second kind. // Usp . - 1924. - Issue. 6 .
Literature
- Hramov Yu. A. Coster Dirk // Physicists: Biographical Reference / Ed. A.I. Akhiezer . - Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. - M .: Nauka , 1983 .-- S. 142. - 400 p. - 200,000 copies. (in per.)