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Dirk ter Haar
Prof Dirk ter Haar FRSE FIP (Oosterwolde, 19 April 1919 – Drachten, 3 September 2002) was an Anglo-Dutch physicist.
Life.
He was born at Oosterwolde in the Friesland district in the northern Netherlands on 19 April 1929.
Dirk ter Haar studied physics at St Andrews University in Scotland and Oxford University in England obtaining an MA degree before carrying out postgraduate studies at Leiden University. In 1946 was a research fellow of Niels Bohr in Copenhagen at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (
Soviet physicists such as Landau and Kapitsa to the western world. He also translated the classic monograph "Quantum Mechanics" by Alexander Davydov into English.
He died at Drachten in the northern Netherlands on 3 September 2002.
Family.
In 1949 Dirk ter Haar married Christine Janet Lound and together they had two sons and a daughter. His daughter, Gail ter Haar, became a reader in physics as well, specializing in therapeutic ultrasound.
Works.
He wrote numerous books on physics, such as "Elements