Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
Berta de Haas-Lorentz | |
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Miss G.L. Lorentz, before 1909, employed by the Polytechnische School Delft, Netherlands. | |
| Born | Geertruida Luberta Lorentz 20 October 1885 Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Died | 2 January 1973 (aged 87) Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | University of Leiden |
| Known for | First to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles |
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| Children | 4 |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Technical University of Delft |
| Thesis | Over de theorie van de Brown'sche beweging en daarmede verwante verschijnselen (1912) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hendrik Lorentz |
Geertruida Luberta "Berta" de Haas-Lorentz (20 November 1885 – 1973) was a Dutch physicist and a professor at the Technical University of Delft. She was the first to theoretically study thermal fluctuations in electric circuits, treating electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered one of the pioneers of electrical noise theory. She was the daughter and doctoral student of Hendrik Lorentz. She went by the name Berta, or Ber.