Jan Meyer
Johannes Petrus Meyer (nickname ''Jan''; 26 June 1842, in Prince Albert, Cape Colony – 2 December 1919, in Johannesburg) was a politician, member of the Volksraad of the South African Republic, mining entrepreneur, and farmer; he is the man for whom Meyerton and Meyersdal (a neighborhood of Alberton) are named.Meyer played a major role in the discovery of the main vein of gold on the Witwatersrand. As a field cornet, he inspected and surveyed land, giving him the opportunity to study the geological structure of the area and to search for subcrops. G.J. du Plessis found the main vein on Turffontein Farm on Meyer's suggestion. He also founded Meyerskamp, later named Natalkamp, and co-owned the Meyer & Charlton Mine, becoming one of the first Afrikaner mining magnates.
He was the first Volksraad member to represent Johannesburg, from 1887 to 1892. His main focus was the successful effort to grant Johannesburg municipality status. Second, he championed the building of the Delagoa Bay-Pretoria railway to supply the Rand's markets for local and imported agricultural and industrial products. He realized that Delagoa Bay, closer than Durban or Cape Town, would be a better trade destination for miners, merchants, industrialists, and farmers around Johannesburg. Third, he played a role in establishing a Second Volksraad to represent Uitlander (foreigner) interests. Provided by Wikipedia
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Temperature-dependent photo-elastic coefficient of silicon at 1550 nm by Johannes Dickmann, Jan Meyer, Mika Gaedtke, Stefanie Kroker
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Rapid and efficient room-temperature serial synchrotron crystallography using the CFEL TapeDrive by Kara A Zielinski, Andreas Prester, Hina Andaleeb, Soi Bui, Oleksandr Yefanov, Lucrezia Catapano, Alessandra Henkel, Max O. Wiedorn, Olga Lorbeer, Eva Crosas, Jan Meyer, Valerio Mariani, Martin Domaracky, Thomas A. White, Holger Fleckenstein, Iosifina Sarrou, Nadine Werner, Christian Betzel, Holger Rohde, Martin Aepfelbacher, Henry N. Chapman, Markus Perbandt, Roberto A. Steiner, Dominik Oberthuer
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