Cornelis Jacobus Gorter

Cornelis Jacobus Gorter, called Cor Gorter, (born 14 August 1907 in Utrecht, † March 30, 1980 in Leiden ) was a Dutch pioneer of low-temperature physics.

Gorter went to The Hague to school and studied ( Paramagnetic properties of salts ) at Leiden University, where he received his doctorate in 1932 at Wander Johannes de Haas. 1931 to 1936 he worked at the Teyler Foundation in Haarlem from 1936 to 1940 at the University of Groningen, before he became successor in 1940 by Pieter Zeeman was a professor at the University of Amsterdam. In 1946 he returned to Leiden to succeed by Willem Keesom on the chair, the once held the famous low-temperature physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. He modernized there the instrumental equipment the Kamerling Onnes Laboratory.

He discovered in 1936, the paramagnetic relaxation ( what a 1946 book by him appeared in suffering it during the German occupation, as he had to hide, wrote ). , Discovering also almost the nuclear magnetic resonance He was not only a good experimenter ( Hendrik Casimir described him as the most outstanding Dutch experimental physicist of his generation ), but also a good theorist who developed after the discovery of the Meissner effect with Casimir Ochs field a two- fluid model of superconductivity. Later he developed with Casimir also a two fluid model of superfluid He II

He was editor of Progress in Low Temperature Physics. In 1966 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for his contributions to the low-temperature physics.