Frans Maurits Jaeger was born on May 11, 1877, in
The Hague,
The Netherlands. He started studying chemistry in
Leiden in 1895, passing his degree in 1898, and his doctorate in 1900. Thereafter he also studied
crystallography in
Berlin,
Germany. In 1904 he was appointed
assistant professor (privaatdocent) at the University of
Amsterdam. In 1908 he moved to the
University of Groningen as
lecturer and in 1909 was promoted
professor, head of the department of
inorganic and
physical chemistry, as a successor of
Jacob Böeseken. From 1910 to 1911 he worked as research fellow of the geophysical laboratory of the
Carnegie Institution for Science in
Washington, D.C. In 1915 he became a member of the
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1929 he received a
George Fisher Baker non-residential lectureship in chemistry at
Cornell University in
Ithaca (USA). He retired in 1943. Frans Maurits Jaeger died on March 2, 1945, in
Haren (Groningen),
The Netherlands. ==Main works==