Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
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Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz (1885–1973) was the first female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered to be the first female in electrical noise theory. She was the eldest daughter of the physicist H. A. Lorentz and Aletta Catharina Kaiser. In 1910, she married the physicist W.J. de Haas and they had two sons and two daughters.
Geertruida Lorentz studied physics at the University of Leiden under her father, and earned her doctor's degree in 1912 on a thesis entitled "Over de theorie van de Brown'schen beweging en daarmede verwante verschijnselen" (On the theory of Brownian motion and related phenomena).
Whilst she was a theoretical physicist of merit, in her own right, her oratory skills as a university lecturer are remembered as being very poor.
[edit] Books by Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz
- Die Brownsche Bewegung und einige verwandte Erscheinungen, (Brownian motion and some related phenomena), Braunschweig, F. Vieweg, 1913. [Translated from Dutch to German by the author].
- H.A. Lorentz: impressions of his life and work, (Translation by Joh. C. Fagginger Auer), Amsterdam, North-Holland Pub. Co., 1957.
