Dutch professor of physical chemistry whose research resulted in a seminal work Theory of the Stability of Lyophobic Colloids. The work had a great influence, also in various other fields where charged surfaces interact with each other. The whole of that theory is now known as DLVO (Derjaguin, Landau, Verwey, Overbeek) theory. Theodoor Overbeek died on 19 February 2007 at age 96. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less
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