Maarten Dingemans passed away on January 12, 2017. His family has donated his collection of books to TU Delft. This collection forms now the Maarten W. Dingemans memorial library. The library can be found in the loggia near room 2.94 of the main building of Civil Engineering and Geosciences. The books can be consulted locally.
A catalogue has been
made of the books available in this memorial library.
Also a list
of papers of Maarten is available.
In the TU
Delft repository a number of reports and papers is available.
Maarten was born 15 Aug 1943 in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where
he attended high-school at the Lorentz Lyceum. He started his studies at
Delft University of Technology in 1962; initially in Mechanical
Engineering, and later in the Faculty of Mathematics.
After receiving his Ir degree in Mathematics from Delft University of
Technology in September 1970, Maarten started working at Delft
Hydraulics in 1970 as a Mathematical Engineer until his retirement in
2007. During his career at Delft Hydraulics, Maarten was involved in
numerous coastal research grants and industrial engineering projects.
One of the well-known laboratory benchmark experiments have been
nick-named as “Dingemans’ bar” experiment.
On November 21, 1994 Maarten received his PhD degree from Delft
University of Technology. Prof. dr. ir. A.J. Hermans was his promoter.
The World Scientific Publishing Co later published his doctoral thesis,
entitled “Water wave propagation over uneven bottoms”, as a two-part
book with the same title in 1997. Many students, researchers and
engineers in the coastal engineering community have studied and
referenced this book.
In 1985 he continued working at Delft Hydraulics at De Voorst and he
moved his family to Emmeloord. On September 1st 2007, at age of 64, he
officially retired from Delft Hydraulics. However, he kept himself busy
attending conferences and workshops all over the world, and writing and
reviewing various articles. At the time of his passing he was still
working on an article together with Dr. ir. Gert Klopman.
Throughout his entire life Maarten has faced continued health
challenges. His courage to cope with ill health has always been
inspiration to many of his friends and colleagues. Maarten enjoyed
cycling, especially cross-country bicycle journeys during his healthy
days. He once wrote: “Long-distance cycling to and from work
stimulates the realization that things do not run as smoothly as one
wishes they should.”