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Adriaan Daniel Fokker

Adriaan Daniel Fokker
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Adriaan Daniël Fokker was a Dutch physicist and musicologist who worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He is the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31-tone equal-tempered (31-TET) organ.

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  1. Clarence BirdseyeDecember 9, 1886 – October 1956
  2. Adriaan Daniel Fokker (this page)August 17, 1887 – September 24, 1972
  3. Barnes WallisSeptember 26, 1887 – October 30, 1979
  4. Elisa Leonida ZamfirescuNovember 10, 1887 – November 25, 1973
  5. Friedrich ZanderAugust 23, 1887 – March 28, 1933
  6. Ricardo Wolf1887–1981

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