About Roelof Houwink
Lived 1897 – 1988 (aged 90–91). Roelof Houwink was a Dutch chemist.
Roelof Houwink (1897–1988) was a Dutch polymer scientist, educated at the University of Delft. He worked at Philips starting in 1925. From 1939 to 1956 he was director-general of the TNOs Rubberinstituut in Delft.
The Mark-Houwink equation is named jointly after Herman F. Mark and him.
Publications Elasticity, Plasticity and Structure of Matter, 1937, Cambridge University Press, London
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Dutch chemist (1897-1988)
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Roelof Houwink was born in 1897 in Meppel.
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