Desiderius Gustav Hermann Latzko, known as Dirk, was a Dutch mechanical engineer who lived from 1924 to 2017. He was born in Salzburg, Austria, the son of the writer Andreas Latzko, attended high school in Amsterdam and took his degree in mechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology in 1949. In 1958 he added a diploma in nuclear engineering from the Harwell Reactor School. From 1961 to 1988 he was a professor of mechanical engineering at Delft, where his work centred on the construction of nuclear reactors. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences elected him a member in 1980. He died in Bloemendaal in 2017.
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was a Dutch mechanical engineer
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He was a professor of mechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology from 1961 to 1988.
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Latzko focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.
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Latzko focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.
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Desiderius Gustav Hermann "Dirk" Latzko (3 February 1924-4 May 2017) was a Dutch mechanical engineer.
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