Biography:Quirin Vrehen
Quirinus Henricus Franciscus "Quirin" Vrehen (25 February 1932 – 5 February 2023) was a Dutch physicist. He served as head physicist of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium.
Life
Vrehen was born on 25 February 1932 in 's-Hertogenbosch.[1][2] He obtained a PhD in physics from Utrecht University in 1963 under professor Volger with a thesis on electron spin resonance and optical studies of solids.[2][3] From 1963 to 1966 he worked in the United States at the MIT National Magnetic Laboratory. At the institute he worked on magneto-optical experiments on semiconductors. Vrehen then returned to the Netherlands and started working at the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium.[2] At the laboratorium he served as leader of the spectroscopy group. From 1980 to 1985 he focused on laser spectroscopy.[3] He later became head physicist at the laboratorium.[4]
Vrehen was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1988.[4] He died on 5 February 2023 in Eindhoven.[5]
References
- ↑ "IEEE Transactions on Magnetics September 1969 - Contributors". IEEE Transactions on Magnetics (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 5 (3). September 1969. doi:10.1109/TMAG.1969.1066629. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1066629.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Donald Stevenson; Marion Reine; Roshan L. Aggarwal (20 November 2019). Benjamin Lax - Interviews on a Life in Physics at MIT: Understanding and Exploiting the Effects of Magnetic Fields on Matter. CRC Press. pp. 285–. ISBN 978-1-00-073469-0. https://books.google.com/books?id=Exy_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT285.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jasperse, J.H. (November 1988). "Vrehen" (in nl). Fylakra (5): 199–200. https://web.science.uu.nl/FylakraFiles/blad/1988/1988-5.pdf.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Quirin Vrehen". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/4953.
- ↑ "Quirin Vrehen" (in nl). https://mensenlinq.nl/overlijdensberichten/quirin-vrehen-9418115/.
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