Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz (born 26 April 1924) [1] [2] is a Dutch physicist. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Groningen between 1960 and 1989. [1]
Hugenholtz was born in Wormerveer. [2] He studied physics at Leiden University and obtained his degree in 1948. Hugenholtz subsequently studied theoretical physics under Hans Kramers. [2] He obtained his PhD in physics at Utrecht University in 1957 with a thesis titled: "The quantum theory of large systems and its application to the structure of nuclear matter". [1]
Hugenholtz was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988. [3]
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