Jan C. A. Boeyens
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Jan C. A. Boeyens is a South African chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...

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Boeyens was educated at the University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
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. 1965 he worked in the National Physics Research Laboratory of South Africa, 1965 in Stanford. 1981 he became a professor of chemistry
Chemistry
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 at the University of the Witwatersrand
University of the Witwatersrand
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, in 1991 dean
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 of the faculty of science of this university.

He has written or co-written more than 600 scientific contributions. Some of his books are used as textbooks of theoretical chemistry all over the world.

As an emeritus he elaborated on and extended the ideas of the prime number cross and the role of the golden ratio
Golden ratio
In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.61803398874989...

 of the German chemist Peter Plichta in a series of original papers and monographs.

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