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Jan-Theodoor Janssen

b. 1965

Dutch physicist

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About Jan-Theodoor Janssen

Born 1965. Jan-Theodoor Janssen is a Dutch physicist.

Theodorus Johannes Bernardus Maria Janssen (born 1965), also known as Jan-Theodoor Janssen or JT Janssen, is the Chief Scientist of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), Henry Royce Institute's Strategic Advisory Board (SAB) Chair since 2024, and President of the Consultative Committee for Ionizing Radiation (CCRI) since 2023. In 2023, he was awarded the Institute of Physics's James Joule Medal and Prize for "outstanding contributions to fundamental and practical quantum electrical metrology". He was elected a Fellow of the National Physical Laboratory in Quantum Electrical Metrology, and Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2021. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2026.

Born in the Netherlands, Janssen obtained a doctor of philosophy from the University of Nijmegen in 1993, before joining the University of Bristol as a research fellow and then moving to NPL in 1998. He is a visiting professor at the Lancaster University.

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Important facts

Born
1965
Birth century
Occupation
Education
Radboud University
Employers
National Physical Laboratory
Awards
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; James Joule Medal and Prize; Fellow of the Royal Society
Also known as
JT Janssen, Theodorus Johannes Bernardus Maria Janssen, Theodorus Janssen

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Dutch physicist

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Jan-Theodoor Janssen was born in 1965.

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Jan-Theodoor Janssen is a physicist.

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Jan-Theodoor Janssen is Dutch.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Jan-Theodoor Janssen

· Wikidata: Q124340999

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