Cornelis Bakker
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Professor Cornelis Jan Bakker at CERN, 1959
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| Born |
11 March 1904 Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| Died | 23 April 1960 (aged 56) New York City, USA |
| Other names | Bakker, Cornelis Jan |
| Occupation | Dutch physicist and former General Director of CERN |
Cornelis Jan Bakker (11 March 1904 – 23 April 1960) was a Dutch physicist and a General Director of CERN. He was also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
Bakker studied physics at the University of Amsterdam under Pieter Zeeman.
In 1931 he obtained his doctorate. His doctoral thesis dealt with the effects of Zeeman effect on spectral lines of noble gases. The next year he spent at the Imperial College of Science in London, where he continued his research in the area of spectroscopy.
In 1933 he worked for the scientific department of Philips in Eindhoven, where he was active in the field of wireless technology. In the following his interest in nuclear physics grow and he started during World War II in cooperation with August Heyn with the development of a cyclotron for Philips.
After the war Bakker replaced Gorter as a professor of physics and director of the Zeeman Laboratory at the University of Amsterdam in 1946. In addition, he became director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics of Amsterdam and the company Philips, which, sponsored by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), formed the center of nuclear physics research in the Netherlands.
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