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Levelt Sengers, J. M. H.
Oral history interview with Johanna (Anneke) M.H. Levelt Sengers, 1996 and 1997.
Session 1: Anneke Sengers discusses: growning up in Amsterdam; her childhood interest in science; her education in physics and chemistry; her PhD work in physics at the University of Amsterdam; her move to the University of Wisconsin; her marriage to Jan Sengers; her eventual return to the United States with letters of recommendation from Jan de Boer, introducing Sengers and her husband to Ralph Hudson at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). Interspersed are many references to the work she was doing, including the communal entrophy problem, hydrogen liquifiers, the Burnett aparatus, and calculating the quantum levels for argon, neon, and nitrogen.
Session 2: Sengers discusses her collaboration with Matilde Missoni, the aftermath of the 1965 Conference on Critical Phenomena, her work in scale properties of fluids, the "ethylene project", her sabbatical to Holland in 1974, the water project with John Gallagher regarding the transport and thermodynamic properties of water, and NBS's "equation of state" which was adopted by the The International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) in 1984.
Session 3: Sengers discusses her speaking engagement at the Van der Waals Laboratory Centennial, the changes in the Statistical Physics Group, the time she spent writing for the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) book, "Experimental Thermodynamics," and the chapter for "Progress in Liquid Physics."
Session 4: Sengers discusses her summer work in Boulder, her Condon Award, the demise of the Heat Division of NBS, and her time as a Group Leader and her tenure as a Senior Fellow. Sengers adds details of her very productive work in aqueous systems, property data for water and steam, the refractive index of water, and the Henry constant to name a few projects.
Session 5: Anneke Sengers begins this fifth session with a discussion of her technical work in supercritical fluids. She also discusses her work on the dielectric constant of water and steam, Pitzer approach for aqueous electrolytes and the review chapter she wrote for the IUPAC book on equations of state. Ms. Sengers also talks about the NATO grant which allowed for a collaboration between NIST and the Technical University, Delft, the 1993 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conference she organized in Turkey, and the 12th International Symposium on Thermophysical Properties she organized in Boulder. Anneke recalls the many awards and honoraries she has received - including Regents Professor at UCLA in the Spring of 1982, the WISE Award in 1985, Correspondent to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science in 1990, her honory degree from the Technical University, Delft to name a few.
Education: Ph.D., physics, University of Amsterdam (1954) Professional experience: Van Der Waals Laboratory; Heat Division of the Institute of Basic Standards, National Bureau of Standards. Research: fluid mechanics and thermodynamics.
Gallagher, John S. (John Scott), 1933-
Hudson, R. P. (Ralph Percy), 1924-
Levelt Sengers, J. M. H.
Vicentini, Matilde.
International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam
International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
University of Amsterdam. Dept. of Physics.
United States. National Bureau of Standards -- History
United States. National Bureau of Standards Heat Division
Van der Waals Laboratory.
Fluid mechanics.
Quantum theory.
Thermodynamics.
Interviews. aat
Oral histories. aat
Transcripts. aat
Beal, Karma A. interviewer.
Gallagher, John S. (John Scott), 1933- interviewer.
Mountain, R. D. interviewer.
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