List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni
Encyclopedia

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  • Laurens van den Acker
    Laurens van den Acker
    Laurens van den Acker is an automobile designer from the Netherlands.-Biography:Van den Acker studied at the Delft University of Technology, where he obtained a Master of Engineering at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering.-Career:He began his career in 1990 as a designer at Design System...

    , Dutch automobile
    Automobile
    An automobile, autocar, motor car or car is a wheeled motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, which also carries its own engine or motor...

     designer and Vice President of Renault
    Renault
    Renault S.A. is a French automaker producing cars, vans, and in the past, autorail vehicles, trucks, tractors, vans and also buses/coaches. Its alliance with Nissan makes it the world's third largest automaker...

     Corporate Design

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  • Ad Bax
    Ad Bax
    Adriaan "Ad" Bax is a molecular Biophysicist. He was born in Holland and is currently a US Citizen. He is the Chief of the Section on Biophysical NMR Spectroscopy at the National Institutes of Health....

    , Dutch biophysicist, contributor to protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    Protein nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
    Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of proteins is a field of structural biology in which NMR spectroscopy is used to obtain information about the structure and dynamics of proteins. The field was pioneered by Richard R. Ernst and Kurt Wüthrich, among others...

  • Henk Badings
    Henk Badings
    Henk Badings was a Dutch composer.Born in Bandung, Java, Dutch East Indies, as the son of Herman Louis Johan Badings, an officer in the Dutch East Indies army, Badings became an orphan at an early age...

    , Dutch composer
  • Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
    Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
    Reinout Willem van Bemmelen was a Dutch geologist whose interests were structural geology, economic geology and volcanology...

    , Dutch geologist
  • Lodewijk van den Berg
    Lodewijk van den Berg
    Lodewijk van den Berg is a Dutch American chemical engineer, specializing in crystal growth, who flew on a 1985 Space Shuttle Challenger mission as a Payload Specialist....

    , Dutch-American astronaut, payload specialist
    Payload Specialist
    A Payload Specialist ' was an individual selected and trained by commercial or research organizations for flights of a specific payload on a NASA Space Shuttle mission...

     on STS-51B mission
  • Onno J. Boxma
    Onno J. Boxma
    Onno J. Boxma is a Dutch mathematician, known for several contributions to queueing theory and applied probability theory.Born in Den Haag, he earned a B.Sc. in mathematics at Delft University , Boxmagot his Ph.D...

    , Dutch queuing theorist
  • Henri Bal
    Henri Bal
    Henri Elle Bal is a professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is a well-known researcher in computer systems with a specialization in parallel computer systems, languages, and applications....

    , Dutch computer scientist
  • Lourens Baas Becking, Dutch botanist and microbiologist
  • Gerrit Broekstra
    Gerrit Broekstra
    Gerrit Broekstra , is a Dutch scientist and professor in the field of organization behavior and systems sciences at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam, Northwestern University, Chicago, and Nyenrode Business University in the Netherlands.- Biography :Broekstra was born in 1941 in Alkmaar in Holland...

    , Dutch systems scientist
  • Wiebe Bijker
    Wiebe Bijker
    Wiebe E. Bijker is a Dutch professor, chair of the Department of Social Science and Technology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands....

    , Dutch sociologists
  • Kees Boeke
    Kees Boeke
    Cornelis Boeke was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist. He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and inspired several films.Boeke tried to renovate education by letting...

    , Dutch Quaker missionary
    Missionary
    A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...

  • Carin ter Beek
    Carin ter Beek
    Carin Anuschka ter Beek is a retired rower from the Netherlands. She won a silver medal in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-References:...

    , Dutch rower, olympic medalist
    Olympic medalist
    An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal: gold, silver and bronze. The winner is awarded the gold medal, the runner-up the silver medal, and the third place competitor is awarded the bronze medal...

  • Jan Boerman
    Jan Boerman
    Jan Boerman was born in The Hague on June 30, 1923. He has been in electronic music studios since 1959. The Delft Polytechnic in Utrecht, from which the world-famous Institute of Sonology was developed, housed the first electronic music studio in Holland after the Philips laboratory in Eindhoven,...

    , Dutch composer of electronic music
    Electronic music
    Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...


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  • Wim Cohen
    Wim Cohen
    Jacob Willem "Wim" Cohen was a Dutch mathematician, well known for over hundred scientific publications and several books in queueing theory....

    , Dutch mathematician
  • Dirk Coster
    Dirk Coster
    Dirk Coster , was a Dutch physicist. He was a Professor of Physics and Meteorology at the University of Groningen....

    , Dutch physicist, discoverer of Hafnium
    Hafnium
    Hafnium is a chemical element with the symbol Hf and atomic number 72. A lustrous, silvery gray, tetravalent transition metal, hafnium chemically resembles zirconium and is found in zirconium minerals. Its existence was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869. Hafnium was the penultimate stable...

  • Kees Christiaanse
    Kees Christiaanse
    Kees Christiaanse is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners in 1989 and Architects and Planners in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002...

    , Dutch architect

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  • Arief Edsel Dahoe, Explosion Scientist, Creator of World's First Higher Educational Programme in Hydrogen Safety Engineering
  • Wim Dik
    Wim Dik
    Wim Dik was the head of Royal PTT Nederland NV, Holland's formerly state-owned postal and telecom service.-References:...

    , Dutch politicus
  • Jacob Pieter Den Hartog, Dutch mechanical engineer, recipient of Timoshenko Medal
    Timoshenko Medal
    The Timoshenko Medal is an award given annually by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to an individual"in recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of applied mechanics."...

  • Henricus Droog
    Henricus Droog
    Henricus Antonius Droog is a Dutch rower who competed in the 1968 Summer Olympics.In 1968 he and his partner Leendert van Dis won the silver medal in the coxless pairs event.-External links:*...

    , Dutch rower, olympic medalist
    Olympic medalist
    An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal: gold, silver and bronze. The winner is awarded the gold medal, the runner-up the silver medal, and the third place competitor is awarded the bronze medal...


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  • Gerritjan Eggenkamp
    Gerritjan Eggenkamp
    Gerritjan Eggenkamp is a Dutch rower.Born in Leiden, Netherlands, Eggenkamp started rowing aged 12 at Het Spaarne rowing club in Heemstede, and first competed internationally as a Junior, coming 9th in the coxless four at the 1993 Junior World Championships...

    , Dutch rower and silver medalist 2004 Summer Olympics
    2004 Summer Olympics
    The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

     silver medalist
  • Erick van Egeraat
    Erick van Egeraat
    Erick van Egeraat is a Dutch architect. He is based in Rotterdam but particularly active in Germany and Russia....

    , Dutch architect
  • Willem Alberda van Ekenstein
    Willem Alberda van Ekenstein
    Willem Alberda van Ekenstein was a Dutch chemist and discovered the Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation together with Adriaan Lobry van Troostenburg de Bruyn....

    , Discoverer of Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation
    Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation
    In carbohydrate chemistry, the Lobry–de Bruyn–van Ekenstein transformation also known as the Lobry–de Bruyn–van-Alberda–van-Ekenstein transformation is the base or acid catalyzed transformation of an aldose into the ketose isomer or vice versa, with a tautomeric enediol as reaction intermediate....

  • Gerritjan Eggenkamp
    Gerritjan Eggenkamp
    Gerritjan Eggenkamp is a Dutch rower.Born in Leiden, Netherlands, Eggenkamp started rowing aged 12 at Het Spaarne rowing club in Heemstede, and first competed internationally as a Junior, coming 9th in the coxless four at the 1993 Junior World Championships...

    , Dutch rower, olympic medalist
    Olympic medalist
    An Olympic medal is awarded to successful competitors at one of the Olympic Games. There are three classes of medal: gold, silver and bronze. The winner is awarded the gold medal, the runner-up the silver medal, and the third place competitor is awarded the bronze medal...


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  • Karien van Gennip
    Karien van Gennip
    Karien van Gennip is a former Dutch politician. In 2008 she was appointed Director European & International Affairs for ING Group.-References:...

    , Dutch secretary of state for economic affairs
  • Rik Grashoff
    Rik Grashoff
    Hendrik Johannes Grashoff is a Dutch engineer and politician. He is a member of GroenLinks , a left-wing, Green political party. Since 23 November 2010 he has been a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands...

    , Dutch politician
  • Willem Frederik Gisolf
    W. F. Gisolf
    Dr Ir Willem Frederik Gisolf was a Dutch geologist and petrographer.Gisolf graduated from Delft University in the early 1900's. In 1910, he married Elisabeth Jacoba Cornelia van der Waals, a niece of Johannes Diderik van der Waals, from whom he separated. In the subssequent years, he invested in...

    , Dutch geologist

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  • Alexandre Horowitz
    Alexandre Horowitz
    Alexandre Horowitz was a Belgian-born Dutch technical engineer and inventor.Alexandre "Sacha" Horowitz was born in 1904 in Antwerp, to parents of East-European Jewish heritage, and lived from 1914 in The Netherlands until his death in 1982...

    , Dutch engineer, designer of Philishave
    Philishave
    Philishave was the brand name for the electric shavers manufactured by the Philips Domestic Appliances and Personal Care unit of Philips . In recent years, Philips had extended the Philishave brand to include hair clippers, beard trimmers and beard shapers...

  • Tjeerd Hoek, Dutch industrial designer, user interface designer of Windows Vista
    Windows Vista
    Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

  • Herman Hertzberger
    Herman Hertzberger
    Herman Hertzberger is a Dutch architect and emeritus professor.-Biography:Herman Hertzberger was born on 6 July 1932 in Amsterdam, Netherlands....

    , Dutch architect
  • Hein de Haan
    Hein de haan
    Hein de Haan, is a Dutch Architect, Urbanist and Teacher at the faculty of Architecture of the TU Delft. de Haan graduated from the TU Delft in 1970. He worked as a teacher at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam, Groningen, and Tilburg.Since 1975, he has been working at the TU Delft...

    , Dutch architect
  • Francine Houben
    Francine Houben
    Francine Houben is a leading Dutch architect. She is a founding partner and the creative director of Mecanoo Architecten, Delft, The Netherlands....

    , Dutch architect
  • Jacobus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and Nobel laureate
  • Jaap Haartsen
    Jaap Haartsen
    Jaap Haartsen is a Dutch electrical engineer, researcher, inventor and entrepreneur....

    , Dutch engineer, inventor of Bluetooth
    Bluetooth
    Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

  • Adrian van Hooydonk
    Adrian van Hooydonk
    Adrian van Hooydonk , is a Dutch automobile designer, best known for several modern BMW concept cars and production vehicles. He is based in Munich, Germany.- Biography :...

    , Dutch automobile designer, head of design at BMW
    BMW
    Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...

  • Gerard J. Holzmann
    Gerard J. Holzmann
    Gerard J. Holzmann is an American computer scientist, best known as the developer of the SPIN model checker. Holzmann was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and received an Engineer's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Delft University of Technology in 1976...

    , Dutch computer scientist, developer of SPIN model checker
    SPIN model checker
    SPIN is a general tool for verifying the correctness of distributed software models in a rigorous and mostly automated fashion. It was written by Gerard J. Holzmann and others in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center at Bell Labs, beginning in 1980...

  • Diederik Hol
    Diederik Hol
    Diederik Hol is a Dutch Design Engineer, designer of the patented Dual Box inline skate frame and the Narrow Shape Cross-Section ice blade, and founder/director of skate company CadoMotus Skating BV....

    , Dutch engineer, inventor of Dual Box
    Dual Box
    Dual Box or DualBox is the trademark name for the patented tubular sidewall inline skating frame, which employs the mechanical properties of the tubular to optimize the performance of a frame or chassis that secures the wheels on an inline skate .Designed in 1999 by Dutch Design Engineer Diederik...

     inline skating frame
  • N. John Habraken
    N. John Habraken
    N. John Habraken is a Dutch architect, educator, and theorist. His major contributions are in the field of mass housing and the integration of users and residents into the design process.-Biography:...

    , Dutch architect, former Dean
    Dean (education)
    In academic administration, a dean is a person with significant authority over a specific academic unit, or over a specific area of concern, or both...

     of MIT Department of Architecture
    MIT School of Architecture and Planning
    The MIT School of Architecture and Planning is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA...

  • Geert Hofstede
    Geert Hofstede
    Geert Hofstede, born as Gerard Hendrik Hofstede is an influential Dutch social psychologist and anthropologist. He is a well-known pioneer in his research of cross-cultural groups and organizations. He has played a major role in developing a systematic framework for assessing and differentiating...

    , Dutch
    Netherlands
    The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

     organizational sociologist

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  • Warner T. Koiter
    Warner T. Koiter
    Warner Tjardus Koiter was an influential mechanical engineer and the Professor of Applied Mechanics at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands from 1949 to 1979.-Life and education:...

    , Dutch mechanical engineer
  • Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Abdul Qadeer Khan
    Abdul Qadeer Khan , also known in Pakistan as Mohsin-e-Pakistan , D.Eng, Sc.D, HI, NI , FPAS; more widely known as Dr. A. Q...

    , Pakistani metallurgical engineer and nuclear scientist.
  • Marc Koehler
    Marc Koehler
    Marc Koehler is a Dutch architect of Portuguese origin.Koehler studied at the Delft University of Technology and, in 2004, he became a staff member and lecturer at the University's Faculty of Architecture....

    , Dutch architect
  • Diederik Korteweg
    Diederik Korteweg
    Diederik Johannes Korteweg was a Dutch mathematician. He is now remembered as the joint discoverer of the Korteweg–de Vries equation.-Early life and education:...

    , Dutch mathematician
  • Jón Kristinsson
    Jón Kristinsson
    Jón Kristinsson is a Dutch architect.-Biography:Kristinsson matriculated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1956. He then studied architecture at Delft University of Technology....

    , Dutch architect
  • Thomas Karsten
    Thomas Karsten
    Herman Thomas Karsten was a Dutch engineer who gave major contributions to architecture and town planning in Indonesia during Dutch colonial rule. Most significantly he integrated the practice of colonial urban environment with native elements; a radical approach to spatial planning for Indonesia...

    , Dutch architect of Indonesia
  • Robert Kozma
    Robert Kozma
    Robert Kozma is a William Dunavant University Professor of Mathematics at the University of Memphis, and director for the Center for Large-Scale Integration and Optimization Networks in the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis....

    , Dutch mathematician, University of Memphis
    University of Memphis
    The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....

     professor
  • Randal A. Koene
    Randal A. Koene
    Randal A. Koene is a Dutch neuroscientist and neuroengineer, and co-founder of carboncopies.org, the outreach and roadmapping organization for Advancing Substrate-Independent Minds . He is currently directing the Analysis team at the nanotechnology company Halcyon Molecular...

    , Dutch neuroscientist
    Neuroscientist
    A neuroscientist is an individual who studies the scientific field of neuroscience or any of its related sub-fields...

     and neuroengineer, pioneer of Whole brain emulation
  • Frederik H. Kreuger
    Frederik H. Kreuger
    Frederik Hendrik Kreuger , is a Dutch high voltage scientist and inventor, lives in Delft, Holland, and is professor emeritus of the Delft University of Technology. He is also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger...

    , Dutch high voltage scientist and inventor
  • Abraham Kuyper
    Abraham Kuyper
    Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian...

    , Dutch politician
    Politician
    A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...

    , journalist
    Journalist
    A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

    , statesman
    Statesman
    A statesman is usually a politician or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career in politics or government at the national and international level. As a term of respect, it is usually left to supporters or commentators to use the term...

     and theologian, prime minister of the Netherlands
    Prime Minister of the Netherlands
    The Prime Minister of the Netherlands is the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Netherlands. He is the de facto head of government of the Netherlands and coordinates the policy of the government...


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  • Wilhelmus Luxemburg
    Wilhelmus Luxemburg
    Wilhelmus Luxemburg is Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B.A. from the University of Leiden in 1950; his M.A., in 1953; his Ph.D., from the Delft Institute of Technology, in 1955. He was Assistant Professor at Caltech during 1958-60;...

    , Dutch mathematician and California Institute of Technology
    California Institute of Technology
    The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...

     professor
  • Walter Lewin
    Walter Lewin
    Walter H. G. Lewin is a professor emeritus of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .-Education and career:...

    , Dutch physicist and MIT professor
  • Harm Lagaay
    Harm Lagaay
    Harm Lagaay is a Dutch automobile designer. Educated in the Netherlands he completed the studies at the IVA and went to work for a Dutch company Olyslager in Soest....

    , Dutch automobile designer, former chief designer of Porsche
    Porsche
    Porsche Automobil Holding SE, usually shortened to Porsche SE a Societas Europaea or European Public Company, is a German based holding company with investments in the automotive industry....

  • Cornelis Lely
    Cornelis Lely
    Cornelis Lely was a Dutch civil engineer and statesman. He first designed and then realised by a law the Zuiderzee Works, a major project that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake, and converting a huge area into dry land.-Career outline:From 1886 to 1891, Lely led the technical research team that...

    , Dutch engineer, chief designer of Zuiderzee Works
    Zuiderzee Works
    The Zuiderzee Works are a manmade system of dams, land reclamation and water drainage works, the largest hydraulic engineering project undertaken by the Netherlands during the twentieth century. The project involved the damming of the Zuiderzee, a large, shallow inlet of the North Sea, and the...

  • Richard Lamb, Dutch strategic futurologist
  • Kazimierz Leski
    Kazimierz Leski
    Kazimierz Leski, nom de guerre Bradl , was a Polish engineer, co-designer of the Polish submarines ORP Sęp and ORP Orzeł, a fighter pilot, and an officer in the World War II Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence.He is credited, during World War II, with at least 25 journeys across...

    , Polish engineer, designer of ORP Orzeł
    ORP Orzeł
    Three boats of the Polish Navy have been named ORP Orzeł :* ORP Orzeł was an commissioned in 1939 and lost in 1940.* ORP Orzeł was a commissioned in 1962 and decommissioned in 1983....

  • Otto Cornelis Adriaan van Lidth de Jeude
    Otto Cornelis Adriaan van Lidth de Jeude
    Otto Cornelis Adriaan van Lidth de Jeude was a Dutch politician. During World War II he was in London. From 1942 till 1945 he served as Minister of War in the Dutch government in exile.-References:*...

    , Dutch politician, Minister of War in the Dutch government in exile
    Dutch government in exile
    The Dutch government in exile was the government of the Netherlands, headed by Queen Wilhelmina, that evacuated to London after the German invasion of the country at the outset of World War II....


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  • Simon van der Meer
    Simon van der Meer
    Simon van der Meer was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, two of the most fundamental constituents of matter.-Biography:One of four...

    , Dutch engineer and Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize
    The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

     winner in physics
    Physics
    Physics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...

  • Anton Mussert
    Anton Mussert
    Anton Adriaan Mussert was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands and its de jure leader. As such, he was the most prominent national socialist in the Netherlands before and during the Second World War...

    , Dutch politician of the Second World War era and founder of National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
    National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands
    The National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands was a Dutch fascist and later national socialist political party. As a parliamentary party participating in legislative elections, the NSB had some success during the 1930s...

  • Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
    Felix Andries Vening Meinesz
    Felix Andries Vening Meinesz was a Dutch geophysicist and geodesist. He is known for his invention of a precise method for measuring gravity. Thanks to his invention, it became possible to measure gravity at sea, which led him to the discovery of gravity anomalies above the ocean floor...

    , Dutch geologist
  • Hubertus van Mook, Dutch administrator in the East Indies
    East Indies
    East Indies is a term used by Europeans from the 16th century onwards to identify what is now known as Indian subcontinent or South Asia, Southeastern Asia, and the islands of Oceania, including the Malay Archipelago and the Philippines...

     (studied, did not graduate)
  • Winy Maas
    Winy Maas
    Winy Maas is a Dutch architect, landscape architect, professor and urbanist. In 1991 together with Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV...

    , Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
    MVRDV
    MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1991. The name is an acronym for the founding members: Winy Maas , Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries...

  • Han van Meegeren
    Han van Meegeren
    Han van Meegeren , born Henricus Antonius van Meegeren, was a Dutch painter and portraitist, and is considered to be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century....

    , Dutch painter
    Painting
    Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

     and portraitis and art forger (studied, did not graduate)
  • Bert Metz
    Bert Metz
    Bert Metz is a Dutch climatologist. He was Co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group III on mitigation on climate change for the third and fourth assessment report of the IPCC...

    , Dutch climatologist, former co-chair of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is a scientific intergovernmental body which provides comprehensive assessments of current scientific, technical and socio-economic information worldwide about the risk of climate change caused by human activity, its potential environmental and...

  • Anne Menke
    Anne Menke
    Anne Menke is a German-born photographer now based in New York City who specializes in editorial, advertising, and beauty photography.-Biography:Anne Menke was born on March 26, 1967 in Wittlich, Germany....

    , German-born photographer

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  • Cornelius Van Niel
    Cornelius Van Niel
    Cornelis Bernardus van Niel was a Dutch-American microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis.In 1923, Cornelis van Niel married Christina van Hemert, graduated in chemical engineering at...

    , Dutch chemist who first demonstrated that photosynthesis is a light-dependent redox reaction
  • Peter Newman, Australian environmental scientist (postdoctoral studies)
  • Siegfried Nassuth
    Siegfried Nassuth
    Siegfried Nassuth was a Dutch architect, best known as the architect of the Bijlmermeer .He attended the Delft University of Technology...

    , Dutch architect, author of Bijlmermeer
    Bijlmermeer
    The Bijlmermeer or colloquially Bijlmer is one of the neighbourhoods that form the Amsterdam Zuidoost borough of Amsterdam, Netherlands. To many people, the Bijlmer designation is used to refer to Amsterdam Zuidoost and Diemen Zuid as a pars pro toto...

  • Quoc Nguyen, petroleum
    Petroleum
    Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...

     engineer

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  • Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, member of the Dutch Royal Family
  • Kas Oosterhuis
    Kas Oosterhuis
    Kas Oosterhuis is professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, as well as director of Hyperbody and the Protospace Laboratory for Collaborative Design and Engineering...

    , Dutch architect
  • Alexander van Oudenaarden, Dutch biophysicist, systems biologist and MIT professor

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  • Willem van der Poel
    Willem van der Poel
    Willem Louis van der Poel is a pioneering Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing the ZEBRA computer. In 1950 he obtained an engineering degree in applied science at Delft University of Technology. In 1956 he obtained his PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam...

    , Dutch engineer and designer of ZEBRA
    ZEBRA (computer)
    The ZEBRA was one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, and one of the first Dutch computers to be commercially available...

     computer
  • Herman Phaff
    Herman Phaff
    Herman Jan Phaff was a scientist who specialised in yeast ecology. He was born in The Netherlands before moving to California at age of 26. He was active in Californian universities until his death...

    , Dutch scientist who specialized in yeast ecology
  • Roel Pieper
    Roel Pieper
    -Early life and education:Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he suffered a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to...

    , Dutch IT entrepreneur
  • Frits Philips
    Frits Philips
    Frederik Jacques "Frits" Philips was the fourth chairman of the board of directors of the Dutch electronics company Philips, which his uncle and father founded...

    , Dutch engineer, fourth chairman of the board of directors of Philips
    Philips
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

  • Gerard Philips
    Gerard Philips
    Gerard Leonard Frederik Philips was a Dutch industrialist, co-founder of the Philips Company as a family business in 1891. Gerard and his younger brother Anton Philips changed the business to a corporation by founding in 1912 the NV Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken...

    , Dutch industrialist, co-founder of Philips
    Philips
    Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....

  • Frits Peutz
    Frits Peutz
    F.P.J. Peutz was a Dutch architect.Peutz was born in a Catholic family in Uithuizen in Groningen, a mostly Protestant province in the north of the Netherlands. In 1910 he was sent to the Rolduc boarding school in Kerkrade in the Catholic province of Limburg for his higher education. In 1914 he...

    , Dutch architect
  • Roel Pieper
    Roel Pieper
    -Early life and education:Pieper was born in Vlaardingen, son of an engineer at a car manufacturer. His father died when Pieper was 20, and on his 18th birthday he suffered a motoring accident which destroyed his sporting career as a player of the Juventus Schiedam basketball team. According to...

    , Dutch IT-entrepreneur
    Entrepreneur
    An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...


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  • Jo Ritzen, Dutch economist
    Economist
    An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

     and social-democratic politician
  • Jan Roskam
    Jan Roskam
    Jan Roskam is the emeritus Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Kansas. He is the author of eleven books on airplane design and flight dynamics and over 160 papers on the topics of aircraft aerodynamics, performance, design and flight controls...

    , Dutch aerospace engineer
  • Clemens C. J. Roothaan
    Clemens C. J. Roothaan
    Clemens C.J. Roothaan was born in 1918 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He enrolled TU Delft in 1935 to study electrical engineering. During World War II he was first detained as a prisoner of war camp, later he was sent for a year to a concentration camp in Vught...

    , Dutch theoretical physicist and developer of Roothaan equations
    Roothaan equations
    The Roothaan equations are a representation of the Hartree-Fock equation in a non orthonormal basis set which can be of Gaussian-type or Slater-type. It applies to closed-shell molecules or atoms where all molecular orbitals or atomic orbitals, respectively, are doubly occupied. This is generally...

  • Herman te Riele, Dutch mathematician, known for disproving Mertens conjecture
    Mertens conjecture
    In mathematics, the Mertens conjecture is the incorrect statement that the Mertens function M is bounded by √n, which implies the Riemann hypothesis...

  • Hendrik van Riessen
    Hendrik Van Riessen
    Hendrik Van Riessen was one of the second generation of reformational philosophers arising from the Free University in Amsterdam, after the first generation of Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven. Other second generationers were: K. J. Popma, S. U. Zuidema and J. P. A...

    , Dutch reformational philosophers
  • Johan Ringers
    Johan Ringers
    Johannes Aleidis Ringers was a Dutch politician.-References:...

    , Dutch politician
  • Jacob van Rijs
    Jacob van Rijs
    Jacob van Rijs is a Dutch architect, lecturer and urbanist. In 1991 together with Winy Maas and Nathalie de Vries he set up MVRDV...

    , Dutch architect
  • Mien Ruys
    Mien Ruys
    Wilhelmina Jacoba Moussault-Ruys, better known as Mien Ruys , was a Dutch landscape and garden architect. Her gardening legacy is maintained in the Dutch town of Dedemsvaart, which is home to the Tuinen Mien Ruys...

    , Dutch landscape and garden architect

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  • Lars Spuybroek
    Lars Spuybroek
    Lars Spuybroek is a Dutch architect and artist.-Education:He graduated cum laude at the Technical University Delft in 1989. A year later, he won the Archiprix for his Palazzo Pensile, a new royal palace for Queen Beatrix in Rotterdam...

    , Dutch architect
  • Egbert Schuurman
    Egbert Schuurman
    Egbert Schuurman is a professor of philosophy in the Netherlands, whose teaching is most concerned with exploring and developing Reformational philosophy and its organized expression, the Association for Reformational Philosophy. He studied under Hendrik Van Riessen...

    , Dutch reformational philosopher
    Reformational philosophy
    Reformational philosophy is a Neo-Calvinistic movement pioneered by Herman Dooyeweerd and D. H. Th. Vollenhoven that seeks to develop philosophical thought in a radically Protestant Christian direction.- Historical overview :...

  • Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch engineer, former Prime Minister of The Netherlands
  • Diederik Samsom, Dutch politician and member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the Dutch Labour Party
  • Jan Arnoldus Schouten
    Jan Arnoldus Schouten
    Jan Arnoldus Schouten was a Dutch mathematician. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam....

    , Dutch mathematician and contributor to tensor calculus
  • Pieter Hendrik Schoute
    Pieter Hendrik Schoute
    Pieter Hendrik Schoute was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry.- References :...

    , Dutch mathematician
  • Eric de Sturler
    Eric de Sturler
    Eric de Sturler is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. He is on the editorial board of Applied Numerical Mathematics, International Journal on Computational Science and Engineering, and Open Applied Mathematics Journal.Prof. de Sturler completed his Ph.D...

    , Dutch mathematician
  • Steef van Schaik
    Steef van Schaik
    Theodorus Stephanus Gerardus Johannes Marie van Schaik was a Dutch politician....

    , Dutch politician
  • Alex Verrijn Stuart
    Alex Verrijn Stuart
    Adolf Alexander Verrijn Stuart was a Dutch computer scientist, and the first Professor in computer science at the Leiden University from 1969 tot 1991.- Biography :...

    , Dutch computer scientist
    Computer scientist
    A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....


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  • Bernard Tellegen, Dutch electrical engineer and developer of pentode
    Pentode
    A pentode is an electronic device having five active electrodes. The term most commonly applies to a three-grid vacuum tube , which was invented by the Dutchman Bernhard D.H. Tellegen in 1926...

     and gyrator
    Gyrator
    A gyrator is a passive, linear, lossless, two-port electrical network element proposed in 1948 by Tellegen as a hypothetical fifth linear element after the resistor, capacitor, inductor and ideal transformer. Unlike the four conventional elements, the gyrator is non-reciprocal...

  • Theodoor Philibert Tromp
    Theodoor Philibert Tromp
    Theodoor Philibert Tromp was a Dutch politician and engineer.Tromp was a mechanical engineer working at Philips since 1927, who in 1945, in the last Dutch government in exile , was Minister of Public Works...

    , Dutch politician
  • Jan Toorop
    Jan Toorop
    Jean Theodoor Toorop , better known as Jan Toorop, was an Indo painter, whose works straddle the space between the Symbolist painters and Art Nouveau.-Biography:...

    , Dutch Art Nouveau
    Art Nouveau
    Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art"...

     painter

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  • Bas van der Vlies
    Bas van der Vlies
    Bastiaan Johannis van der Vlies is a former Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party . He was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands from June 10, 1981 until June 17, 2010. However, this does not make him the longest serving MP, Duymaer van Twist served for almost 45...

    , Dutch politician of the Reformed Political Party
    Reformed Political Party
    The Reformed Political Party is an orthodox Protestant Dutch political party. The term Reformed is not a reference to political reform, but is a synonym for Calvinist. The SGP is the oldest political party in the Netherlands in its current form, and for its entire existence has been in opposition...

  • Jeroen van der Veer
    Jeroen van der Veer
    Jeroen van der Veer was the CEO of the petroleum corporation Royal Dutch Shell until 30 June 2009....

    , Dutch engineer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell
    Royal Dutch Shell
    Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...

  • Pier Vellinga
    Pier Vellinga
    Pier Vellinga is one of the Netherlands experts on the impacts of climate change.-Position in 2009:Vellinga is the chairman of the Knowledge for Climate research program and vice chairman of the Climate Changes Spatial Planning program...

     Dutch expert on climate change
  • Nathalie de Vries
    Nathalie de Vries
    Nathalie de Vries is a Dutch architect, lecturer and urbanist. In 1991 together with Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs she set up MVRDV...

    , Dutch architect, co-founder of MVRDV
    MVRDV
    MVRDV is a Rotterdam, Netherlands-based architecture and urban design practice founded in 1991. The name is an acronym for the founding members: Winy Maas , Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries...

  • Jo van den Broek, Dutch architect
  • Hendrik Vos
    Hendrik Vos
    Hendrik Vos was a Dutch economist and politician.-References:...

    , Dutch politician
  • Jan Visman
    Jan Visman
    Jan Visman played a key role in building a bridge between sampling theory with its homogeneous populations and sampling practice with its heterogeneous sampling units and sample spaces...

    , Dutch statistician
    Statistician
    A statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...


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  • Leen van der Waal
    Leen van der Waal
    Leendert van der Waal is a Dutch engineer and former politician. He is a member of the Reformed Political Party and former Member of the European Parliament.- References :...

    , Dutch engineer and former politician
  • Adriaan van Wijngaarden
    Adriaan van Wijngaarden
    Adriaan van Wijngaarden was an important mathematician and computer scientist who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica in the Netherlands...

    , Dutch computer scientist and developer of Van Wijngaarden grammar
    Van Wijngaarden grammar
    In computer science, a Van Wijngaarden grammar is a two-level grammar which provides a technique to define potentially infinite context-free grammars in a finite number of rules...

     and co-desigher of ALGOL
    ALGOL
    ALGOL is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in the mid 1950s which greatly influenced many other languages and became the de facto way algorithms were described in textbooks and academic works for almost the next 30 years...

  • Franciscus Cornelis Marie Wijffels
    Franciscus Cornelis Marie Wijffels
    Franciscus Cornelis Marie Wijffels was a Dutch politician.-References:* at "Parlement &Politiek"* by the Institute of Dutch History...

    , Dutch politician
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