Hugo Christiaan Hamaker

Hugo Christiaan Hamaker
Born(1905-03-23)23 March 1905
Broek op Langedijk, Netherlands
Died7 September 1993(1993-09-07) (aged 88)
Eindhoven, Netherlands
Known forHamaker constant
Hamaker theory
Hamaker's law
RelativesPhilip Kuenen (brother-in-law)
Hendrik Jacob Hamaker (grandfather)
AwardsShewhart Medal (1979)
Scientific career
InstitutionsPhilips Physics Laboratory
Eindhoven University of Technology
ThesisReflectivity and Emissivity of Tungsten (1934)
Doctoral advisor
Leonard Ornstein

Hugo Christiaan Hamaker (23 March 1905 – 7 September 1993), or Huug Hamaker, was a Dutch physical chemist and applied statistician. He was responsible for the Hamaker theory which explains the van der Waals forces between objects larger than molecules.

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