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This book contains excellent popular descriptions of the work of the Dutch pioneers of science and industry during the last fifty years. The sciences included in this book are astronomy, biology, chemistry and physics, and the industries agriculture, aviation, mineral oil, radio and tin. The book is Teally about the subjects mentioned, but it is arranged biographically. Of the many famous names mentioned, which include Nobel Prize winners, are the following: Kamerlingh Onnes, Van der Waals, Lorentz, Zeeman, Debye, de Vries, Fokker; and reference is made to the Philips laboratory at Eindhoven.
Nederlandsche Baanbrekers der Wetenschap
Door J. C. Alders. Pp. 201. (Amsterdam: Bigot and Van Rossum N.V., n.d.) n.p.
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TILLOTSON, E. Dutch Pioneers In Science and Industry. Nature 160, 449 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160449a0
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