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Biography
Balthasar van der Pol was known as Balth. His father, also named Balthazar van der Pol, was a rich tea merchant with broad cultural interests and he provided his son with ample opportunity to develop his many talents.His mother was Gerhardina Clasina Steffens.
Van der pol biography
Balth attended the HBS (hogere burgerschool) in Utrecht and graduated from the gymnasium in 1911. He then entered the University of Utrecht where he studied physics and mathematics until 1916 when he graduated with a degree in Physics for which he was awarded the highest distinction.
In 1916 van der Pol went to study with John Ambrose Fleming, an English electrical engineer and physicist who was Pender Professor at University College London. Fleming was the first professor of Electrical Engineering at University College, and is well known for inventing a diode, the first thermionic valve, in 1904.
On 2 June 1917 van der Pol married Pietronetta Posthuma in London; they had a son and two daughters. After a year