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Hendrik Casimir

Dutch theoretical physicist (1909–2000) who spent nearly his entire career at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven. In 1948 he derived the force now bearing his name: an attraction between two uncharged parallel conducting plates in a vacuum, arising from the way the plates restrict the electromagnetic modes of empty space. He also contributed to the theory of superconductivity and served as research director of Philips from 1972 to 1979.

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