Dirk ter Haar
Dirk ter Haar
Life
Dirk ter Haar was born at
In 1950 he obtained a post as professor of physics at the
He became a Fellow and Senior Tutor of Magdalen College, Oxford and Reader in theoretical physics at the University of Oxford.[1]
In 1966 Ter Haar became a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]
Many prominent scientists studied under Ter Haar, including
Dirk could read Russian, and played a prominent role in disseminating the works of Soviet physicists such as Landau and Kapitsa to the western world.[1] He also translated the classic monograph Quantum Mechanics by Alexander Davydov into English.
He retired from his positions at Oxford in 1986, and died at Drachten in the northern Netherlands on 3 September 2002.
Family
In 1949 Dirk ter Haar married Christine Janet Lound and together they had two sons and a daughter. His daughter, Gail ter Haar, became a reader in physics as well, specializing in therapeutic ultrasound.[6]
Works
He wrote numerous books on physics, such as Elements of Statistical Mechanics (1954). In addition, he wrote a book on Kramers and was a founding editor for
- D. ter Haar, Elements of Statistical Mechanics. London: Constable (1954). 2ed (1966) New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; 3ed (1995) Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann
- D. ter Haar and H.N.S. Wergeland, Elements of Thermodynamics, Addison-Wesley, 1966[7]
- D. ter Haar, Elements of Hamiltonian Mechanics, Pergamon Press, Oxford.
- D. ter Haar, The Old Quantum Theory, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1967.
- D. ter Haar, "On the Origin of the Solar System", .
- D. ter Haar, Lectures on Selected Topics in Statistical Mechanics, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1977.
- D. ter Haar, Master of Modern Physics. The Scientific Contributions of H. A. Kramers, Princeton University Press, 1998.
References
- ^ .
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- ^ Dirk ter Haar (1948). "Studies on the origin of the solar system" (PDF).
- ISBN 0-902-198-84-X. Archived from the original(PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
- Huygens Institute- Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). pp. 52–55. Retrieved 23 October 2017.
- ^ "Professor Gail ter Haar". The Institute of Cancer Research, London. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
- ISBN 0-2010-7460-5.
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