Willem Gerrit "Wim" Mook (10 July 1932 – 24 January 2016) was a Dutch

isotope Isotopes are two or more types of atoms that have the same atomic number (number of protons in their nuclei) and position in the periodic table (and hence belong to the same chemical element), and that differ in nucleon numbers (mass numbers) ...

physicist. Mook was born on 10 July 1932 in

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

. He obtained his doctorate at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

in 1968, with a dissertation titled: ''Geochemistry of the stable carbon and oxygen isotopes of natural waters in the Netherlands''. He was a lecturer of

physics at the same university between 1975 and 1979. Starting the next year he was professor of isotope physics, until his retirement in 1997. From 1986 he also served as professor at the

VU University Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

. Mook was director of the

Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, also known as NIOZ, in Dutch the Nederlands Instituut voor Zeeonderzoek, is the Dutch national oceanographic institute. It is located on the island of Texel, and in Yerseke, in the Netherlands. The i ...

(NIOZ) from 1990 to 1996.Family notices in ''

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, 27 January 2016 In 1985 he became a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

. He died on 24 January 2016 in Haren.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mook, Wim 1932 births 2016 deaths Dutch nuclear physicists 20th-century Dutch physicists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Scientists from Groningen (city) University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of the University of Groningen Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam