Frans Maurits Jaeger (May 11, 1877, in
The Hague – March 2, 1945, in
Haren) was a Dutch
chemist and specialist in the history of
chemistry
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. He is known for his studies of the symmetry of crystals.
Biography
Frans Maurits Jaeger was born on May 11, 1877, in
The Hague,
The Netherlands. He started studying chemistry in
Leiden in 1895, passing his degree in 1898, and his doctorate in 1900. Thereafter he also studied
crystallography
Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Crystallography is a fundamental subject in the fields of materials science and solid-state physics (condensed matter physics). The wor ...
in
Berlin,
Germany.
In 1904 he was appointed
assistant professor (privaatdocent) at the University of
Amsterdam. In 1908 he moved to the
University of Groningen as
lecturer
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and in 1909 was promoted
professor, head of the department of
inorganic and
physical chemistry, as a successor of
Jacob Böeseken.
From 1910 to 1911 he worked as research fellow of the geophysical laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution for Science in
Washington, D.C.
In 1915 he became a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
In 1929 he received a
George Fisher Baker non-residential lectureship in chemistry at
Cornell University in
Ithaca (USA). He retired in 1943.
Frans Maurits Jaeger died on March 2, 1945, in
Haren (Groningen),
The Netherlands.
Main works
* ''Kristallografische en molekulaire symmetrie van plaatsings-isomere benzolderivaten'' (1903)
* ''Lectures on the principle of symmetry and its applications in all natural sciences'' (1917)
* ''Elementen en atomen eens en thans. Schetsen uit de ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis der elementenleer en atomistiek'' (1918).
* ''Inleiding tot de studie der kristalkunde.” Introduction in the study of cristals''(1924)
References
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1877 births
1945 deaths
Dutch physical chemists
Leiden University alumni
Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
Scientists from The Hague