page_title: Hans Kramers
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Kramers
caption_attribution_description: English: Hendrik Kramers around 1928 in Ann Arbor. Uhlenbeck and Goudsmit proposed the idea of electron spins three years earlier when they were studying in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest. A high resolution picture may be obtained from AIP's Emilio Sergè Visual Archives source: http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/physlist.html http://th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/uhkrgo.jpg alternative: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Kramers.html http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Uhlenbeck.html According to MacTutor: We believe that most of the images are in the public domain and that provided you use them on a website you are unlikely to encounter any difficulty.
context_page_description: Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
context_section_description: Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers (2 February 1894 – 24 April 1952) was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
caption: Hans Kramers in c. 1928
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