Conseguì il suo dottorato di ricerca all'Università di Utrecht nel 1934. La sua dissertazione era intitolata: "Reflectivity and Emissivity of Tungsten; with a Description of a New Method to Determine the Total Reflectivity of Any Surface in a Simple and Accurate Way" ("Riflettanza ed emissività del tungsteno; con la descrizione di un nuovo metodo per determinare la riflettanza totale di ogni superficie in maniera semplice ed accurata"). Il suo relatore fu Leonard Ornstein.
Dal 1934 al 1967 lavorò presso il Laboratorio di Fisica della società Philips a Eindhoven e, dal 1960 al 1972, fu professore alla Eindhoven University of Technology[1][2].
H.C. Hamaker (1934). Reflectivity and emissivity of tungsten : with a description of a new method to determine the total reflectivity of any surface in a simple and accurate way. Amsterdam: Noord-Hollandsche Uitg. Mij. x+76 pp. (Tesi di dottorato dell'Università di Utrecht)
H.C. Hamaker and W.F. Beezhold (1934). Gebrauch einer Selen Sperrschicht Photo Zelle zur Messung sehr schwacher Intensit¨aten. Physica 1, 119-122.
H.C. Hamaker (1937). The London-Van der Waals attraction between spherical particles. Physica 4(10), 1058–1072.
H.C. Hamaker (1942). A simple and general extension of the three halves power law. Physica 9(1), 135–138.
J.E. de Graaf and H.C. Hamaker (1942). The sorption of gases by barium. Physica 9(3), 297–309.
H.C. Hamaker (1950). Current distribution in triodes neglecting space charge and initial velocities. Applied Scientific Research, Section B, 1(1), 77–104.
H.C. Hamaker (1962). Applied statistics : an important phase in the development of experimental science (Inaugural lecture). Microelectronics and Reliability, 1(2), 101–109.
H.C. Hamaker (1969). Nogmaals de wet en de kansspelen : commentaar op Hemelrijk's beschouwingen. Statistica Neerlandica, 23(3), 203–207.
H.C. Hamaker (1968). Some applications of statistics in chemical and physical classroom experiments. In European Meeting on Statistics, Econometrics and Manag. Sci. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2–7, 1968).
H.C. Hamaker (1969). De wet en de kansspelen. Statistica Neerlandica, 23(2), 179–191.
H.C. Hamaker (1970). Over claimfrekwenties, claimbedragen en risicopremies bij de privé-autoverzekering. Het Verzekerings-archief, 47, 154–174.
H.C. Hamaker (1971). New techniques of statistical teaching. Revue de l'Institut International de Statistique, 39(3), 351–360.
Note
^Obituary: Hugo Christiaan Hamaker (1905–93), collana Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), vol. 157, 1994, p. 500, JSTOR2983534.
Joan Keen Obituary: Hugo Christian Hamaker (1905-93) Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 157, No. 3 (1994), pp. 500–501.
J. W. Sieben and F. G. Willemze, Tribute to H. C. Hamaker, in Statistica Neerlandica, vol. 26, n. 3, 2008, pp. 3–7. URL consultato il 3 settembre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 5 gennaio 2013).