Burgers
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People
- Johannes Martinus BurgersJohannes Martinus Burgers-External links:* A.J.Q. Alkemade, , in Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland. * , biography at the University of Maryland* * at the University of Maryland*...
, Dutch physicist, namesake of Burgers' equation and brother of W. G. Burgers - W. G. Burgers, Dutch crystallographerCrystallographyCrystallography is the experimental science of the arrangement of atoms in solids. The word "crystallography" derives from the Greek words crystallon = cold drop / frozen drop, with its meaning extending to all solids with some degree of transparency, and grapho = write.Before the development of...
and brother of J. M. Burgers - Thomas François BurgersThomas Francois Burgers-Literature:...
, Afrikaner politician and president of the Transvaal Republic - Johan Burgers, Dutch zoologist and founder of Burgers' ZooBurgers' ZooBurgers' Zoo is a zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is one of the biggest zoos in the country. Arnhem is a city that lies within the Veluwe, a nature park in the east of the Netherlands...
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- Burgers' ZooBurgers' ZooBurgers' Zoo is a zoo in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and is one of the biggest zoos in the country. Arnhem is a city that lies within the Veluwe, a nature park in the east of the Netherlands...
, in ArnhemArnhemArnhem is a city and municipality, situated in the eastern part of the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of Gelderland and located near the river Nederrijn as well as near the St. Jansbeek, which was the source of the city's development. Arnhem has 146,095 residents as one of the...
, NetherlandsNetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
founded by Johan Burgers. - Burgers ParkBurgers ParkBurgers Park is a park located in the center of Pretoria, South Africa. Founded in the 1870s, it covers four acres and has been declared a South African National Monument. It is named for Thomas François Burgers, fourth president of the South African Republic. A statue of President Burgers stands...
, a park in central PretoriaPretoriaPretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
, South AfricaSouth AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
named for President T.F. Burgers. - Burgers (album)Burgers (album)-Personnel:*Jorma Kaukonen – guitars, lead vocals*Jack Casady – bass, vocals, eyebrow*Papa John Creach – violin, vocals*Sammy Piazza – drums, tympani, other percussion, vocals-Additional personnel:...
, by the band Hot Tuna - Burgers' equationBurgers' equationBurgers' equation is a fundamental partial differential equation from fluid mechanics. It occurs in various areas of applied mathematics, such as modeling of gas dynamics and traffic flow...
, a partial differential equation used to model phenomenon from gas dynamics to traffic flow, named after Johannes Martinus Burgers
See also
- Berger (disambiguation)
- Burgher (disambiguation)
- BürgerBürgerBürger may refer to:* Ernst Moritz Buerger, founder, Missouri Synod of the Lutheran Church* Gottfried August Bürger, German poet* Heinrich Bürger, German physicist and biologist* Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS-Oberführer...
- BirgerBirgerBirger is a Scandinavian name from Old Norse, bjarga, meaning "to help, to save, to protect". The Swedish variant is Börje, Icelandic Birgir. Birger is primarily a masculine given name, but can also be found as a surname...