Tiberius Hemsterhuis

Tiberius Hemsterhuis

male, deceased (1766)
LeidenUniversityalumni, From Groningen, university of leiden, Philologist, mathematics, groningen
Tiberius Hemsterhuis (January 9, 1685 - April 7, 1766), Dutch philologist and critic, was born in Groningen, in The Netherlands. His father, a...

Soenario

male, deceased (1997)
from Madiun, East Java, Bintang Mahaputera recipient, LeidenUniversityalumni, Javanese, East Java, politician…Diponegoro University, leiden university
Prof. Soenario, also spelled Sunario, was Indonesia’s minister of foreign affairs from 1953 to 1955. Born in Madiun, East Java, Soenario was ed...
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

male, deceased (1936)
Islam in the Netherlands, Leiden University faculty, LeidenUniversityalumni, Dutch East Indies, Oosterhout, colonial government…leiden university
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the...

Geertruida de Haas-Lorentz

female, deceased (1973)
LeidenUniversityalumni, electronic noise, university of leiden, brownian motion, H. A. Lorentz, physicist
Geertruida Luberta de Haas-Lorentz was the first female Dutch physicist and the first to perform fluctuational analysis of electrons as Brownian...
Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

male, deceased (1923)
van der Waals force, thermodynamicist, Nobel Prize, Nobel laureate in Physics, equation of state, van der Waals forces…LeidenUniversityalumni, From Leiden
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch scientist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids which...
Nikolaas Tinbergen

Nikolaas Tinbergen

male, deceased (1988)
LeidenUniversityalumni, World War II prisoner of war, ethology, Ornithologist, Nobel Prize winner, Ethologist…Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen (April 15, 1907 - December 21, 1988) was a Dutch ethologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in...
Carlo Beenakker

Carlo Beenakker

male, 49 years old
Leiden University faculty, LeidenUniversityalumni, electrical conduction, nanoscience, Akzo Nobel, science teacher…leiden university, leiden
Carlo W. J. Beenakker (born June 9, 1960) is a professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established...
David Ruhnken

David Ruhnken

male, deceased (1798)
Leiden University faculty, LeidenUniversityalumni, Church Father, new testament, pomerania, latin language…University of Wittenberg, university of leiden
David Ruhnken (1723-1798) was a scholar, one of the most illustrious in the history of the Netherlands. He was of German origin, and was born in...
Morris Tabaksblat

Morris Tabaksblat

male, 72 years old
LeidenUniversityalumni, Board of Director, captain of industry, manager, leiden university, code of conduct
Morris Tabaksblat, Rotterdam 1937, is a Dutch 'Captain of industry'. He is mostly known as a former CEO of Unilever and chairman of the...

John Robinson

male, deceased (1625)
English Christian minister, LeidenUniversityalumni, Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, Puritans, mayflower, separatist
John Robinson (1575-1625) was the pastor of the "Pilgrim Fathers" before they left on the "Mayflower". He became one of the early leaders of the...