Emmalaan 32
Oegstgeest
Arie Bijl was born December 23, 1908 in Maassluis. He was the youngest child of Simon Bijl (1869-1951), owner of a milk factory, and Willemijntje van der Lelij (1873-1944). In his younger years it was already clear that Arie was very gifted. That is why his family contributed that, like an older brother, he could study.
Arie Bijl studied mathematics and physics at Leiden University and obtained his PhD there in 1938 on the Discontinies dissertation in The Energy and Specific Heat. On the photo on the right he is in the middle while he is working as a researcher. After his promotion, he remained affiliated with Leiden University and did research on liquid helium, among other things. A publication of him in 1940 led to a wave function he developed now as the Bijl-Dingle-Jastrow Golff function that is still being used. The Bijl-Feynman Spectrum and the Bijl-Jastrow Factor are also named after him. In 2022, Leiden University, in collaboration with Village Marketing Oegstgeest, paid attention to its scientific career. Current professor Sense van der Molen has a presentation about his life in the Arie Bijlhof here in Oegstgeest on that occasion. You can download it via this link.
In the crisis years, Arie Bijl was a member of a group of scientists around the later Nobel Prize winner Jan Tinbergen. The reason was that Tinbergen wanted to apply physical principles to economic problems. Bijl corresponded about economics with Albert Einstein and wrote the book Employment Politics: Order in a free economy that was published posthumously with the Arbeiderspers with a preface by Tinbergen in 1953.
In the Second World War he was ended in the resistance. He continued fellow nature experts from Eastern Europe, including the Polish Jew Julius Podolanski (1905-1955), hidden in his mill "De Kamerad" in Nederhorst ten Berg. This was the second Kortenhoefse Molen. This mill burned down due to carelessness of one of the people in hiding.
On January 7, 1944, he married Agnes Beket in Oegstgeest. His son Maarten Bijl was born in the fall of 1944. Unfortunately, Arie never saw his son. Because a member of the resistance had a list of names during a check, the Germans tracked him by. Arie Bijl was transferred to Camp Amersfoort via Scheveningen and from there to the Neengamme concentration camp near Hamburg where he arrived on October 14, 1944. Due to the extremely poor conditions in the camp, he died on January 2, 1945, according to the camp administration of a gastrointestinal catarre.
In Oegstgeest a street has been named after him, the Arie Bijlhof.
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