Adriaan Fokker
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| Born | Adriaan Daniël Fokker 17 August 1887 |
| Died | 24 September 1972 (aged 85) Beekbergen, Netherlands |
| Alma mater | Leiden University (PhD) |
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| Relatives | Anthony Fokker (cousin) |
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| Thesis | Over Brown'sche bewegingen in het stralingsveld, en waarschijnlijkheidsbeschouwingen in de stralingstheorie (1913) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hendrik Lorentz |
Adriaan Daniël Fokker (Dutch: [ˈaːdrijaːn ˈdaːnijɛl ˈfɔkər]; 17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) 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.