Jan C. A. Boeyens FRSSAf[1] (October 2, 1934 – August 26, 2015) was a South African chemist and educator.
As an emeritus he wrote books challenging the current scientific consensus about the adequacy of quantum mechanics in which he presented a way to establish more accurate modern physics and chemistry without using higher mathematics by using elementary number theory.
[3] He died on 28 August 2015 in Broederstroom, North West, South Africa after returning home from a crystallography conference.
[4] Boeyens belonged to the followings societies:[2] He received the following awards:[2] The first Jan Boeyens Medal for outstanding young scientists (younger than 40 years) in theoretical Chemistry or Physics was awarded to Prof Gideon Steyl from the University of the Free State Chemistry department in 2009.
In some of his books and articles Boeyens held some dissident views[8] on several subjects: Numerologists can interpret great historical and cosmic events, predict the future and explain human nature.
[10]His book Number Theory and the Periodicity of Matter (co-authored with Demetrius C. Levendis) references the work of Peter Plichta.
More fundamental than both is the periodic table that reduces the properties of matter to a number basis, which is revealed only peripherally in the differential equations of quantum theory.