title: Roelof Houwink
text: # Roelof Houwink
  
  Roelof Houwink (1897–1988) was a Dutch polymer scientist, educated at the University of Delft. He worked at Phillips since 1925. From 1939 to 1956 he was director-general of the TNOs Rubberinstituut in Delft.
  
  The Mark-Houwink equation is named after him together with Herman F. Mark.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Elasticity, Plasticity and Structure of Matter, 1937, Cambridge University Press, London
  