Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 – May 4, 2000) was a Dutchphysicist. July 15 is the 196th day (197th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 169 days remaining. ... 1909 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... This article is about the year 2000. ... A physicist is a scientist trained in physics. ...
He was born in The Hague, Netherlands and studied at the University of Leiden, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1931 and subsequently worked as an assistant to Wolfgang Pauli at the ETH Zürich. Arms of The Hague The Hague (with capital T; Dutch: Den Haag, or officially s-Gravenhage) is the administrative capital of the Netherlands, located in the west of the country, in the province South Holland of which it is also the capital. ... Leiden University in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Wolfgang Ernst Pauli (April 25, 1900 – December 15, 1958) was an Austrian-Swiss physicist noted for his work on the theory of spin. ... ETH Zurich (from its German name Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. ...
He died in Heeze. Heeze-Leende is a municipality in the southern Netherlands. ...
While at Philips Research Labs, in 1948 Casimir predicted the quantum mechanical attraction between conducting plates now known as the Casimir effect, which has important consequences in Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS), among others. Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Royal Dutch Philips Electronics Ltd. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Fig. ... In 1948 Dutch physicist Hendrik B. G. Casimir of Philips Research Labs predicted that two uncharged parallel metal plates will be subject to a force pressing them together. ... // Introduction Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the technology of the very small, and merges at the nanoscale into Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (NEMS) and Nanotechnology. ...
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir, a brilliant scientist and leader of industrial research, died on 4 May in Heeze, the Netherlands, after a brief illness.
Casimir's PhD thesis, which he completed in 1931, dealt with the quantum mechanics of a rigid spinning body and the group theory of the rotations of molecules.
Casimir's abundant knowledge of science (and arts!) together with his extraordinary capacity for dissecting the most intricate problems, often by the use of amusing metaphors, made conversation with him on the bottlenecks in scientific progress not only entertaining but also effective.
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