Adriaan Fokker died on 1972-09-24.
Adriaan Fokker was born on 1887-08-17.
The Fokker-Planck Equation arose in the work of Adriaan Fokker's 1913 thesis. Fokker studied under Lorentz, and that is probably the connection between Fokker and Planck, whose names the equation bears. Both physicists were working on brownian motion. Adriaan Fokker published "Die mittlere Energie rotierender elektrischer Dipole im Strahlungsfeld" Annalen der Physik 43, (1914) 810-820 and Max Planck published Ueber einen Satz der statistichen Dynamik und eine Erweiterung in der Quantumtheorie, Sitzungberichte der Preussischen Akadademie der Wissenschaften (1917) p. 324-341.
The Fokker-Planck Equation arose in the work of Adriaan Fokker's 1913 thesis. Fokker studied under Lorentz, and that is probably the connection between Fokker and Planck, whose names the equation bears. Both physicists were working on brownian motion. Adriaan Fokker published "Die mittlere Energie rotierender elektrischer Dipole im Strahlungsfeld" Annalen der Physik 43, (1914) 810-820 and Max Planck published Ueber einen Satz der statistichen Dynamik und eine Erweiterung in der Quantumtheorie, Sitzungberichte der Preussischen Akadademie der Wissenschaften (1917) p. 324-341.
Herman Fokker died in 2001.
Adriaan Katte died in 1991.
Adriaan Heereboord died in 1661.
Adriaan Stoop died in 1935.
Adriaan Engelvaart died in 1893.
Adriaan Valckenier died in 1751.
Adriaan Pauw died in 1653.
Adriaan Koerbagh died in 1669.
Adriaan Maas died in 1996.