Johanna Maria Henrica (Anneke) Levelt Sengers (born 4 March 1929) is a Dutch physicist known for her work on critical states of

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s. She retired from the

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(NIST) in 1994, after a 31 year career there.. In 2005 Levelt Sengers was co-chair (with Dr Manju Sharma) for the InterAcademy Council of the advisory report 'Women for Science' published June 2006. She currently co-chairs the

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women for science program.

Education and career

Born on 4 March 1929 in Amsterdam, Netherlands,(Anneke) Levelt Sengers - Institute for Physical Science and ...
/ref> Levelt Sengers earned candidaats (an undergraduate degree) in physics and chemistry from the

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in 1950, and completed her Ph.D. from the same university in 1958. Her dissertation, ''Measurements of the Compressibility of Argon in the Gaseous and Liquid Phase'', was jointly promoted by and . She emigrated to the United States in 1963 and joined the National Bureau of Standards (later renamed to NIST).

Awards and honors

In 1990, Levelt Sengers became a corresponding member of the

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. In 1992,

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gave her an honorary doctorate. She is a

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of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Physical Society, and the

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, and a member of the

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and

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. She was the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science 2003 Laureate for North America,. and the 2006 winner of the ASME

Yeram S. Touloukian Yeram Sarkis Touloukian (December 28, 1920 – June 12, 1981) was an American professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center (now known as CINDAS) at Purdue University in West Lafayette, India ...

Award. In 2015, the IANAS Women for Science Program announced an award for young women scientists would be named the Anneke Levelt-Senger Prize (sic) in her honor.

References

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