Adriaan Fokker

Adriaan Daniël Fokker ( born August 17, 1887 in Buitenzorg, Java, † September 24, 1972 in Beekbergen, Netherlands) was a Dutch physicist and musician.

Fokker studied mining engineering at Delft University of Technology and Physics at the University of Leiden with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, where he received his doctorate in 1913. He continued his research continued with Albert Einstein ( winter semester 1913/14, in Zurich ), Ernest Rutherford and William Henry Bragg. In his PhD ( on Brownian motion of an electron in the radiation field ) he discovered Max Planck together the Fokker -Planck equation. Later, he was Curator of Teyler Society in Haarlem and professor in Leiden.

He was a cousin of the famous aircraft designer Anthony Fokker.

Under the pseudonym Arie de Klein, he composed a number of smaller pieces. He also fought for the purity of the Dutch language.

Works

  • New Music with 31 tones. Dusseldorf: Publishing House of the Society for the Promotion of systematic music knowledge eV 1966. English edition: New music with 31 notes. Bonn-Bad Godesberg: publisher of systematic musicology in 1975.
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