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Cornelis Bakker

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Cornelis Bakker
Born
Cornelis Jan Bakker

(1904-03-11)11 March 1904
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died23 April 1960(1960-04-23) (aged 56)
New York City, US
TitleDirector-General of CERN
PredecessorFelix Bloch
SuccessorVictor Weisskopf
Scientific career
Alma materUniversity of Amsterdam (PhD)
Known forDevelopment of the Synchro-Cyclotron
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsTemplate:Flat list
Doctoral advisorPieter Zeeman
Doctoral studentsAaldert Wapstra[1]

Cornelis Jan Bakker (11 March 1904 – 23 April 1960)[2] was a Dutch physicist who served as Director-General of CERN from 1955 until his death in 1960.[3]

For more information, see Wikipedia.

References

  1. "Cornelis Jan Bakker - Physics Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  2. "Cornelis Jan Bakker". Biografisch Portaal. Retrieved 28 December 2016.
  3. "Cornelis Jan Bakker Bio". Retrieved 2014-10-10.