Arie Andries Kruithof (1909,
Zeist
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(NL) – 1993,
Son en Breugel (NL)) was a Dutch professor of
applied physics
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"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination ...
at
Eindhoven University of Technology
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(Netherlands).
Kruithof studied physics at
Utrecht University
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, where he obtained a doctor’s degree from
Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (November 12, 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – May 20, 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist.
Biography
Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leid ...
in 1934.
[PhD dissertation at ]Utrecht University
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: (under Leonard Ornstein
Leonard Salomon Ornstein (November 12, 1880 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands – May 20, 1941 in Utrecht, the Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist.
Biography
Ornstein studied theoretical physics with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz at University of Leid ...
)
At
Philips
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, he did research on lighting systems, especially
gas-discharge lamp
Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma.
Typically, such lamps use a
noble gas (argon, neon, krypton, and xenon) or a mixture of thes ...
s. Later he was appointed professor of
applied physics
Applied physics is the application of physics to solve scientific or engineering problems. It is usually considered to be a bridge or a connection between physics and engineering.
"Applied" is distinguished from "pure" by a subtle combination ...
at
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...
, leading the Atomic Physics group, mainly researching gas discharges and
plasma
Plasma or plasm may refer to:
Science
* Plasma (physics), one of the four fundamental states of matter
* Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral
* Quark–gluon plasma, a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics
Biology
* Blood pla ...
s.
The
Kruithof curve, describing the influence of
colour temperature
Color temperature is the color of light emitted by an idealized opaque, non-reflective body at a particular temperature measured in kelvins. The color temperature scale is used to categorize the color of light emitted by other light sources ...
on visual perception, is named after him.
References
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1909 births
1993 deaths
20th-century Dutch physicists
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
People from Zeist