Nico van Kampen

Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen ( called Nico van Kampen, usually cited as NG van Kampen, born June 22, 1921 in Leiden, † October 6, 2013 in Nieuwegein ) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who worked on statistical physics.

Career

Van Kampen studied at Leiden University, where he received his doctorate in 1952 at Hendrik Anthony Kramers ( Contributions to the quantum theory of light scattering ), the dissertation at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen was built. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht, where he worked since 1955.

1952/53, he was at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Van Kampen provided fundamental contributions to statistical mechanics of non-equilibrium processes (including the master equation) and in the many-body theory (especially in plasma physics ). His studies of nonequilibrium processes began in the group of SR de Groot ( the successor of Kramers ) in Leiden in 1953.

He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.

The Nobel laureate Gerardus ' t Hooft is a nephew van Kampen.

Writings

• N. G. van Kampen: Views of a physicist. Selected papers of NG van Kampen, World Scientific 2000 ( editor Paul HE Meijer )
• NG van Kampen: Stochastic processes in physics and chemistry, North Holland 1981, 3rd edition, 2007, ISBN 0-444-89349-0
• NG van Kampen, BU Felderhof: Theoretical methods in plasma physics, North Holland 1967, ISBN 0720401208