biography
pronunciation:
[kazimeer]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1909–2000)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in The Hague, The Netherlands. He studied physics at Leyden, Copenhagen, and Zürich, and became director of the Philips Research Laboratories in 1946. In 1934 he helped to devise a general theory of superconductivity; the later theory by Bardeen and others both includes and extends Casimir's work. The Casimir effect is a weak attractive force between conducting plates in a vacuum, predicted by Casimir in 1948 using quantum electrodynamics. |
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