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De Uithof, showcase of modern architecture
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Princetonplein 5
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Bureau Haskoning, Nijmegen
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1974
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The Buys Ballotlaboratory was built
to accomodate the researchers in physics and astrophysics.
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Jun 6th, 1974
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| The name of the building |
Christophorus
Henricus Diederik Buys Ballot (1817 - 1890) was born in Kloetinge
in the southern Province of Zeeland as the son of a clergyman.
In 1835 Buys Ballot enrolled at Utrecht University as a student
of arts. However, he also took lessons in mathematics and
physics and did a PhD on the principles of co- and adhesion
in 1844. In 1845 he was appointed 'lector' (ass. professor)
in geology and mineralogy and somewhat later also in theoretical
chemistry. In 1847 he became a parttime professor in mathematics
and in 1857 he received a full professorship in mathematics.
He was a man of many talents and in 1867 Buys Ballot was
appointed professor in Physics. His first publications on
the subject of meteorology date back to 1846. Buys Ballot
is famous for the meteorological law (1854) that takes his
name and may be expressed as follows:
In the Northern
Hemisphere, stand with your back to the wind;
the low
pressure area will be on your left. Buys Ballot could derive
his law empirically, and was able to support the theoretical
deduction of the principle that the American William Ferrel
had discovered the year before.
On Jan 31st 1854, Buys Ballot founded the Royal Dutch Meteorological
Institute (KNMI) at Sonnenborgh in Utrecht, became its first
director and stayed in charge until his death in 1890. |
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