| Balthasar van der Pol | |
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| Born | January 27, 1889 |
| Died | October 6, 1959 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Fields | Physics |
| Notable awards | IEEE Medal of Honor |
Balthasar van der Pol (Utrecht, 27 January 1889 – Wassenaar, 6 October 1959) was a Dutch physicist.
Van der Pol studied physics in Utrecht, and in 1920 he was awarded his doctorate (PhD). He studied experimental physics with John Ambrose Fleming and Sir J. J. Thomson in England. He joined Philips Research Labs in 1921, where he worked until his retirement in 1949.
His main interests were in radio wave propagation, theory of electrical circuits, and mathematical physics. The Van der Pol oscillator was named after him.
He was awarded the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the IEEE) Medal of Honor in 1935. The asteroid 10443 van der Pol was named after him.
References
- vanderpol at IEEE.org
Literature
- Balth. van der Pol & J van der Mark (1928): The Heartbeat considered as a Relaxation oscillation, and an Electrical Model of the Heart. Phil. Mag. Suppl. No. 6 pp 763–775
- Van der Pol & Bremmer: Operational Calculus. Cambridge 1964
- Selected Scientific Papers: North-Holland Publishing Company 1960;Two volumes
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- His granddaughter is Belinda Van der Pol
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