Dirk Polder
Dutch physicist
Died when: 81 years 207 days (978 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Dirk Polder (23 August 1919 – 18 March 2001) was a Dutch physicist who, together with Hendrik Casimir, first predicted the existence of what today was known as the Casimir-Polder force, sometimes also referred to as the Casimir effect or Casimir force.
He also worked on the similar topic of radiative heat transfer at nanoscale.In 1978 Polder became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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