Piet Hartman

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Piet Hartman (11 April 1922 – 26 March 2021) was a Dutch crystallographer who served as a professor at Leiden University and Utrecht University between 1973 and 1987. He was born in Veendam and studied physical chemistry at the University of Groningen. He earned his PhD there on 18 December 1953 under P. Terpstra, with a dissertation on the relations between crystal structure and morphology. He became a lecturer of crystallography at Leiden University in 1959. In 1973 he was appointed full professor at Leiden and remained there until 1980. In 1978 he became professor of crystallography at Utrecht University, where he worked until his retirement in 1987. He was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1982. Hartman died on 26 March 2021, shortly before his 99th birthday.