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I am greatly indebted to my collaborators, including many who I could not mention explicitly within the scope of this article. They have all been important in my professional career and in my personal life. I am deeply grateful to my wife Anneke who has been a supportive partner in this entire endeavor. I thank my colleagues Mikhail Anisimov, Bob Dorfman, and Ted Kirkpatrick for their valuable comments.

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Appendix: Collaboration with Anneke Levelt Sengers

Appendix: Collaboration with Anneke Levelt Sengers

I like to conclude with some comments on the collaboration with my wife Anneke. Anneke received her Ph.D. at the Van der Waals Laboratory in 1958. When I married her in 1963, she had already spent a year as a postdoc with Joseph Hirschfelder at the University of Wisconsin. She was very enthusiastic about her experience in the US. We sent a letter to Ralph Hudson, Chief of the Heat Division who reacted positively to our request for a position at NBS. Prior to our departure I was interviewed by one of the Universities in Netherlands for a faculty position after my return from NBS. When I brought up that we also needed an opportunity for Anneke, I discovered that Anneke, being now a married woman, was assumed to no longer need an academic position. Hence, it was evident that we needed to move to the US for Anneke to have a scientific career.

While Anneke worked at NBS in the Equation-of-State Section, she also collaborated with Mel Green and an Italian visiting scientist, Mathilde Vicentini-Missoni, demonstrating scaling of the thermodynamic properties near the critical point of fluids proposed by Widom [167]. I did not look for any collaboration with Anneke specifically, but it happened naturally in the field of critical phenomena [59, 60, 72, 141, 143, 168, 169]. We were also both involved in the technical programs on water and steam of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and of IAPWS, as discussed in Sect. 6.2. We both received the Touloukian Award of ASME and we both were elected as Honorary Fellows of IAPWS.

In 1974/1975 I had a sabbatical leave which we spent in The Netherlands. A problem was that I had an invitation for a visiting professorship at the Technical University Delft, but Anneke could not find any position in The Netherlands for that period. She ended up finding a guest office in the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Amsterdam. She used the period to investigate the history of the Dutch school of thermodynamics [170, 171] leading eventually to her book on how fluids unmix [172]. However, it was not an easy year. A problem was that all shops were closed during lunch time and in the evening. Only tobacco shops were open till 7 pm, since men should be able to buy a cigar after work. At that time, Dutch society was not yet adapted to the need of two-career couples. So upon returning to the US in 1975, we filed for US citizenship.

We continued to keep in touch with science in The Netherlands. I not only had collaborations with Hans van Leeuwen in Delft and Hans van den Berg in Amsterdam, but also with Dick Bedeaux and Peter Mazur in Leiden on the critical behavior of the dielectric constant [173]. I also served on several research and education committees. Anneke established a professional contact with Jakob de Swaan Arons and Cor Peters of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technical University Delft (TUDelft). We both were elected as correspondents of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences which we experienced as a sign of appreciation from our Dutch colleagues. To our surprise we both received an honorary doctors degree on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the TUDelft in 1992 in the presence of Queen Beatrix (Fig. 2). Anneke was the first woman to receive an honorary doctors degree from the TUDelft and we were told that there was no precedent for a couple to receive honorary doctors degrees simultaneously from any University in The Netherlands. This was a truly beautiful experience for us as a professional couple. According to a Dutch proverb: “end good, all good”.

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Queen Beatrix congratulates Jan and Anneke with their honorary degrees at the Technical University Delft

Anneke went on to get many other distinctions including the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science in North America. For biographical information about Anneke, the reader is referred to a forthcoming book [174].

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Sengers, J.V. Encountering Surprises in Thermophysics. Int J Thermophys 41, 117 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-020-02696-7

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