Pieter van Musschenbroek
Dutch scientist
Born on: March 14, 1692Died on: September 19, 1761
Aged: 69 years 189 days (834 months)
Gender: Male
Nationality: Dutch
Birth Sign: Pisces
Pieter van Musschenbroek was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746.
He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. His pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts made him one of the first scientists to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing in 1729.
An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his described in the 1739 paper.
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