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Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (1909-2000). The Physicist in Research, Industry and Society

Helmut Rechenberg

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If one checks various dictionaries for the name `Casimir', one will find quite a few entries under the subjects of mathematics and physics, as well as in many international Who's Whos. All refer to the same person, who is particularly associated with a mathematical concept, the `Casimir operator', and a physical phenomenon, the `Casimir effect'.


PACS

01.60.+q Biographies, tributes, personal notes, and obituaries

03.65.-w Quantum mechanics

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Education and communication

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 4 (July 2001)

Received 28 March 2001, in final form 25 April 2001



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