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:

    “An indirect quotation we can usually expect to rate only as better or worse, more or less faithful, and we cannot even hope for a strict standard of more and less; what is involved is evaluation, relative to special purposes, of an essentially dramatic act.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)