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BIOGRAPHY Gerrit Moll (Gerard Moll)
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Below: Caricature of Gerrit Moll: Personalities (± 1835) : John Dalton ( 1766-1844, English chemist, atomic theory of matter and Fellow of the Royal Society, at the right) Gerrit Moll ( 1785-1838, at the left), Physicists Meetings Agreements Caricatures Dutch Atomic Theory Portraits United Kingdom Industrial Revolution (1780-1869).
Black&White foto, published in : "Een physisch-chemische caricatuur [van Gerrit Moll en John Dalton] / door Ernst Cohen Auteur(s): Ernst Julius Cohen 1869-1944 Uitgever: Utrecht : Van 't Hoff-Laboratorium Jaar: 1905" . |
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Prof.Dr. Gerrit Moll (also known as Gerard Moll) -Lutherian, born Jan 18, 1785, Amsterdam,Bapt. 20 jan. 1785 Amsterdam - died Jan 17, 1838, Amsterdam.
In 1818 Prof. Dr. Gerrit Moll married to a young woman Johanna van Teutem (born Gouda) and was divorced in 1830 [ Echtscheidingsakte Aktenummer: 178 Datum: 03-08-1830].
Prof. Dr. Gerrit Moll was a Dutchman of a very impressive stature (about 1 mtr 93). He lived during the French Revolution and the dominance of the French over The Netherlands. Gerard Moll was a member of the Royal Society London.See: Collection-Gerard Moll,University of Utrecht, about 1000 publications, 10 Altasses containing maps from 17th-18th century (subject: Physics, Mathematics, Astronomy, Shipbuilding). LINK: Collections Bibliopolis. In 1831 he wrote, "On the alleged decline of science in England by a foreigner, 1831", which was in direct response to Francis Bailey's assertion. Gerard Moll visited the Hydrographical Office on the 10th and 11th September 1835. He was a good technician and craftsman but he studied Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics at the Atheneum Illustre at Amsterdam (6). Then in 1815 (at the age of 30) he was appointed as a Professor (honoris causa) at the University of Utrecht as the successor of Prof.Dr. Johannes Theodorus Rossijn. Gerrit Moll had trenchant views on the participation of the French scientific establishment in the French Revolution and stimulated the English in constructing an artillery to beat Napoleon at Waterloo (June 18th,1815). He did experiments on the velocity of sound(21). On june 28, 1832 Moll measured noise of guns and he was on of the first to measure the velocity (speed) of sound in air (at 21 degrees C, about 300 meters per second), build on the wave-theory postulated by Christian Huygens 150 years before(3).
Anyhow, he was a member of the London Astronomic Society and granted
with the Dutch Medal of Honor (Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw).
In fact, his attitude as a pure scientist who explicitely does not want to be involved in practical consequencies, gave rise to the foundation of the KNMI (Royal Dutch Meteorologigal Institute) in 1854.
Redev. over J.H. van Swinden, Amst. 1824; Verh. over eenige vroegere zeetogten der Nederlanders, ald. 1825; Geschiedk. onderzoek naar de uitv. der verrekijkers, Amst. 1831. Correspondence (letters) with Minister Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (25) |

BIOGRAPHY Willem Jan Henri Moll.
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A distant relative of Gerard Moll was Willem Jan
Henri Moll, Professor in physics at the University of Utrecht (Pijnacker,
June 25,1876 - Amersfoort, March 10,1947)(9). ![]() Prof. Dr. Willem Jan Henri Moll (1876-1947) Willem Jan Henri (Moll-family-tree Amsterdam-Enkhuizen, NH) was the son of the (Ned.-Herv) vicar Pieter Moll (born April 1,Enkhuizen, 1831) and his second wife Jakoba Maria Boomkamp (born Jan.16 Edam,NH). He was a cousin of Jacob Anthonie Theodoor Moll, physician, Utrecht - Amsterdam and Jacob Anthonie Moll, physician Utrecht. He visited the gymnasium at Maastricht and studied Mathematics and Fysics
at the University of Utrecht (prof. Dr.W.H. Julius). A biography about
W.J. H.Moll is written by Mw. J.G. van Cittert-Eymers, 'Moll, Willem Jan
Henri (1876-1947)', in: Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland 1
(Den Haag 1979). Dissertation Cum Laude, "Onderzoek van Ultrarode spectra",University of Utrecht, 1907. Meting van straling"- The Measuring of Radiation-,Groningen University. His experiments were based on the work of Wilhem Conrad Röntgen (10). Willem J.H.Moll introduced a sensitive thermopile instrument. This instrument was the precursor for the first Kipp & Zonen solar instruments (the pyranometer). The Pyranometer is a sensor used to measure variations in solar radiation. It is used with a recording device, the solarigraph. The principle of operation of the pyranometer is that of the thermophile of the Dutch Willem Jan Henri Moll. This principle was adapted later by Dr. Ladislaw Gorczynski of the Meteorological Institute of Varsovia in 1924. It was the first pyranometer and a pyrheliometer. Sold under the name "Solarimeter", the first Moll-Gorczynsky pyranometers were in full production at Kipp & Zonen by 1927 and represented the first in a growing range of 'solar' products. In advanced form the instrument is still very crucial to day by measuring deviations in the Global temperature today. Willem Jan Henri Moll was a pupil of the physicist and noble prize laureate Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. W.J.H. Moll werkte samen met Dr. Leonard Salomon Ornstein (1880-1941),
leerling van Lorentz.
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A wellknown physicist to day is John Louis Moll (23)(24). John Louis Moll was born 21 December 1921, in Wauseon, Ohio. He obtained the B.Sc. in Physics and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1943 and 1952, respectively. He was a staff member at the RCA Labs, Lancaster, PA, from 1944 to 1945. As a member of Technical Staff at the Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL) between 1952 and 1958, Moll carried out research and development of silicon devices. This was the period of time when the management goal at BTL was the invention of a new technology to replace the vacuum tubes and relays in the telephone central offices. Moll was involved with many of the efforts to reach this goal. These included the modeling of the solid-state switches, and identification of Silicon (in preference to Germanium) as the most appropriate available semiconductor technology.
Moll is author or co-author of several books on semiconductor device physics and modeling; recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship, 1964; Howard N. Potts Medal, Franklin Institute, 1967; the Ebers Award, IEEE Electros Devices Society, 1971; the Benjamin Lamme Medal, Ohio State University, 1988. Moll received the IEEE Edison Medal in 1991, "for pioneering contributions to diffused and oxide-masked silicon devices, transistor analysis, the p-n-p-n switch, and optoelectronics." He is a Fellow of the IEEE; member of the American Physical Society; the National Academy of Engineering; and the National Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 1991 IEEE Edison Medal "For pioneering contributions to diffused and oxide-masked silicon devices, transistor analysis, the p-n-p-n switch, and optoelectronics."
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(14) The Tidal
Correspondence, Biography & Bibliography, December 2002. International Association
for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans
Zie ook:
Moll, G.
Over waarnemingen der getijden langs de
Nederlandse kusten.
(15) Paper
Gerrit Moll, "Electro-Magnetic Experiments (Formation of Powerful Magnets by
Galvanism)"
(16) BLEIBTREU, L.Publication: Amsterdam, C.G. Sulpke, 1830.
Titel:"Beschrijving van den Sterrenhemel, of Onderricht om de Sterrenbeelden te leeren kennen door eigen oefening. Met eene voorrede voorzien door G. Moll".
(17) G. Moll, 'Iets over Jacob Maurits Carel baron van Utenhove van Heemstede',
in: Algemeene konst- en letterbode 1839 (2), p. 83-88, 98-114 (Posthume uitgave).
(18) About J.W.H.Moll : J.G. van Cittert-Eymers in Biographisch
woordenboek van Nederland", Martinus Nijhoof, ´s Gravenhage 1979,
Vol.I, pp. 400-401.
(19) 'On the Solar Eclipse which took place on September 7, 1820.
Communicated in a Letter to J.F.W. Herschel, Esq. Foreign Secretary, from Professor
Moll of Utrecht', Read May 11, 1821, in Memoirs of the Astronomical Society
of London, Vol. 1 (London, 1822), pp. 144-153; p. 150: "Mr. Nahuys had
several watches set right at noon, according to a meridian line, which he represents
to be drawn with very great accuracy". Deze episode wordt besproken in
Huib Zuidervaart, Van 'Konstgenoten' en hemelse fenomenen. Nederlandse sterrenkunde
in de achttiende eeuw (Rotterdam: Erasmus Publishing, 1999), p. 391.
Nahuys
(20) Moll, Gerrit: Electro-magnetische proeven. - Amsterdam: Muller, 1830.
(21) MOLL, GERARD. COMMUNICATED BY HENRY KATER.: On Captain Parry's and Lieutenant Foster's experiments on the velocity of sound. Read January 1828, 1828. Extracted from The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1828.
(22) Departementaal bestuur Zuiderzee: nr. 639. Stukken betreffende de benoeming van (G.) Moll tot hoogleraar in de sterrekunde en directeur van het Observatorium te Utrecht .
(23) Ebers-Moll relationship: Model
to characterize a transistor.
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Legacies: IEEE History Center
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De briefwisseling van J.R. Thorbecke part II and part III : Moll, G., 1785-1838,
hoogleraar in de wis- en sterrenkunde te Utrecht 1812-1838: I-405, 407; II-257,
387; III-147,187.
Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis: De briefwisseling
van J.R. Thorbecke
Bewerker(s) G.J. Hooykaas and F.J.P. Santegoets (1975-2002 )
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Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis: ORNSTEIN, Leonard Salomon (1880-1941)
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