Anneke Levelt Sengers, PhD, was a Dutch physicist who studied the behavior of fluids. She received her PhD in Physics from the University of Amsterdam in 1958. In 1963 she immigrated to the United States and joined the National Bureau of Standards, now called the National Institute of Standards and Technology. There she became an internationally recognized scientist in the area of thermodynamics of the critical behavior of fluids and fluid mixtures. Her research earned her awards from the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences. In 1992 she became the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the Technical University Delf in its 150-year history.
