Hans Capel

Hans Willem Capel (3 June 1936 – 7 April 2023) was a Dutch theoretical physicist. He was a professor of theoretical physics at the Leiden University from 1979 to 1983 and subsequently the University of Amsterdam between 1983 and 1998.

Biography Capel was born on 3 June 1936 in Sceaux, France. He obtained his PhD in mathematics and physics at Leiden University in 1965 under with a dissertation titled: The hole-equivalence principle, the Van Vleck relation and the application to the theory of d-ions in Ligand fields. Capel subsequently became a lector of theoretical physics at the same university in 1970, and served as professor in the same field between 1979 and 1983. He also served as editor of Physica A.

Capel died in Haarlem on 7 April 2023 after a short illness.