Van de Graaff

Van de Graaff can refer to the physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff or machines named in honor of the physicist. The devices include:

  • Van de Graaff generator
  • The linear particle accelerator design that bears his name.

Cornelis Jacob van de Graaff was the successor of Joachim van Plettenberg as Governor at Cape Town in 1785.

Famous quotes containing the word van:

    “The variables of quantification, ‘something,’ ‘nothing,’ ‘everything,’ range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)