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In this book we look back on developments in fluid mechanics in the Netherlands. Burgers’ observation, quoted above, raises at least one intriguing question: did Burgers set a trend and can one say that most fluid mechanicists in this country have been ‘interpreters’ rather than ‘discoverers’? It is up to the reader to try to formulate an answer.
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Alkemade, F. (2019). INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. In: A Century of Fluid Mechanics in The Netherlands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03586-0_1
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