Mathematician:Hendrik Anthony Kramers

Mathematician
Dutch physicist who worked with to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter.

Nationality
Dutch

History

 * Born: 2 February 1894 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 * Died: 24 April 1952 in Oegstgeest, The Netherlands

Theorems and Definitions

 * Kramers-Heisenberg Dispersion Formula (with )
 * Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin Approximation (with and ), also known as the WKB Method, or the Liouville-Green Method or LG Method (after  and )
 * Bohr-Kramers-Slater Theory (with and )

Publications

 * 1919: Intensities of spectral lines: On the application of the quantum theory to the problem of the relative intensities of the components of the fine structure and of the Stark effect of the lines of the hydrogen spectrum
 * 1933: Die Grundlagen der Quantentheorie
 * 1934: Physics and physicists

Also known as
Informally known as Hans.