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Hendrick Kramers
Pages 162-167

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... , formerly a member of the Governing Board of Koninklijke Zout Organon, later Akzo, and presently Akzo Nobel, passed away on September 17, 2006, at the age of 89. He became a foreign associate of the National Academy of Engineering in 1980.
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... Ten of his former students became university professors; thus, part of his legacy is the continuing education of outstanding engineers in the Netherlands. During his Delft period, Hans prepared a set of mimeographed lecture notes called Physische Transportverschijnselen (1956)
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... Lightfoot. Bob Bird spent the spring semester of 1958 at Hans Kramers's laboratory in Delft, where he taught transport phenomena and produced a set of class notes, Transportverschijnselen in Stromende Media (1958)
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... ; honorary member, Netherlands Forum for Engineering and Science (1987) ; Commendatore nell' Ordine del Merito della Republica Italiana (1970)
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... Hans was survived for just over one year by his wife Lies, who died on November 20, 2007, and by his five children (Pieter, Jan Dirk, Annelies, Pauline, and Nanette) , nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
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