Piet Hartman (11 April 1922 – 26 March 2021) was a Dutch crystallographer, who worked as professor at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

and Utrecht University between 1973 and 1987.

Career

Hartman was born in Veendam on 11 April 1922. He studied physical chemistry at the University of Groningen. Hartman subsequently obtained his title of doctor under professor P. Terpstra at the same university on 18 December 1953, with a dissertation titled: "Relations between structure and morphology of crystals". He became a lector of

crystallography Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in crystalline solids. Crystallography is a fundamental subject in the fields of materials science and solid-state physics (condensed matter physics). The wor ...

in 1959. In 1973 he was named full professor and he continued to work at Leiden University until 1980. In 1978 he was named professor of crystallography at Utrecht University, where he would work until his retirement in 1987. Hartman was elected a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1982. He died on 26 March 2021, shortly before his 99th birthday.

References

1922 births 2021 deaths Crystallographers 20th-century Dutch scientists Academic staff of Leiden University Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Veendam University of Groningen alumni Academic staff of Utrecht University {{Netherlands-scientist-stub