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Pieter van Musschenbroek
Dutch naturalist (1692–1761)
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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 14 March 1692
- Died
- 19 September 1761
- Place of birth
- Leiden
- Place of death
- Leiden
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- van Musschenbroek
- Field of work
- physics
- Occupation
- astronomer, physician, physicist, astrologer, mathematician, university teacher, instrument maker, surgeon
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), BEIC Digital Library, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Herman Boerhaave
- doctoral student
- Petrus Camper, Jean Nicolas Sébastien Allamand, Hermann Biegmann, Johannes Geistman
- educated at
- Leiden University
- floruit
- 1806
- has works in the collection
- Museum Boerhaave
- languages spoken, written or signed
- Latin
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society
- notable work
- Leyden jar
- student
- Alvaro Telles Dacosta, Petrus van Aken, Theodorus Fayus, Johannes Andreas Pfister, Willem Arntzenius, Johann David Hahn, Olof Hiorter
- student of
- Wolferdus Senguerdius
- work location
- Leiden
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