Pieter van Musschenbroek

Also known as P. van Musschenbroeck, P. van Musschenbroek, Petrus van Musschenbroek

Dutch naturalist (1692–1761)

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Type: Person
Country: DE
Active from: 1770-12-17
Active to: 1827-03-26

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5 total works indexed

SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
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Densely Connected Convolutional Networks
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Molecular dynamics with coupling to an external bath
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MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
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Pieter van Musschenbroek (14 March 1692 – 19 September 1761) was a Dutch scientist credited with the invention of a pioneering capacitor design in the Leyden jar in 1746. He was a professor in Duisburg, Utrecht, and Leiden, specializing in physics, mathematics, philosophy, medicine, and astronomy. His pioneering work on the buckling of compressed struts made him one of the first scientists to provide detailed descriptions of testing machines for tension, compression, and flexure testing in 1729. An early example of a problem in dynamic plasticity his described in the 1739 paper (in the form of the penetration of butter by a wooden stick subjected to impact by a wooden sphere).

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