Roelof Houwink (1897–1988) was a Dutch

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scientist, educated at the University of Delft. He worked at Phillips since 1925. From 1939 to 1956 he was director-general of the TNOs ''Rubberinstituut'' in Delft.Gary Patterson, "Polymer Science from 1935 to 1953: Consolidating the Paradigm", Springer 2014, S. 64f The Mark-Houwink equation is named after him together with Herman F. Mark.

Publications

*''Elasticity, Plasticity and Structure of Matter'', 1937,

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, London

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Polymer scientists and engineers 20th-century Dutch chemists Delft University of Technology alumni 1897 births 1988 deaths {{Netherlands-scientist-stub