Pieter Rijke

Pieter Rijke
Born	(1812-07-11)11 July 1812 Hemmen, Gelderland
Died	7 April 1899(1899-04-07) (aged 86) Leiden
Nationality	Dutch
Alma mater	University of Leiden
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	University of Leiden
Doctoral advisor	Pieter Johannes Uijlenbroek [de]
Doctoral students	Johannes Bosscha Hermanus Haga Hendrik Lorentz Johannes van der Waals

Petrus Leonardus Rijke (11 July 1812 – 7 April 1899) was a Dutch physicist, and a professor in experimental physics at the University of Leiden. Rijke spent his scientific career exploring the physics of electricity, and is known for the Rijke tube. On 1 July 1852 he married Johanna Hamaker. They had 6 sons and 6 daughters.

Early years and education

Rijke was born in Hemmen, (now Overbetuwe municipality), Gelderland. His father, Dirk Rijke, was a pastor. His mother was Elisabeth Pieternella Beausar.

From 1830 Rijke studied physics under Pieter Johannes Uijlenbroek ^[de] at the University of Leiden, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1836. The title of his Ph.D. thesis was "De origine electricitatis voltaicae".^[1]

Academic career

In 1835 he was appointed professor of physics at the Royal Athenaeum in Maastricht. In 1845 he became extraordinary professor and in 1854 he was promoted to full professor of physics at the University of Leiden.

There he started a physics laboratory with a large collection of scientific instruments. His most important students were H.A. Lorentz and J.D. van der Waals. He retired in 1882, and was succeeded by Heike Kamerlingh Onnes as professor of experimental physics at the University of Leiden.

Rijke became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1863.^[2]

Publications

[1]

See also

• Rijke tube

References

External links

• H.A.M. Snelders, Rijke, Petrus Leonardus (1812-1899), in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. (In Dutch).
• List of Ph.D. students of Pieter Rijke
• Vasco Verlaan, P.L. Rijke: Een Bron van degelijkheid., master's thesis, University of Utrecht, 2003 (In Dutch).
• Ph.D. family tree of Pieter Rijke
• Pieter Rijke at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

This page was last edited on 12 January 2023, at 16:15