"But it is not time for me to die; I have not yet finished my life's work."
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a little time before his death, as quoted by A. J. Q. Alkemade, in
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Jan Burgers
Johannes (Jan) Martinus Burgers (January 13, 1895 – June 7, 1981) was a Dutch physicist, credited to be the father of Burgers' equation, the Burgers vector in dislocation theory and the Burgers material in viscoelasticity.
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