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Leiden University
Leiden University (Dutch: Universiteit Leiden), located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by Prince William of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden...
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Hendrik Casimir
Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir (July 15, 1909 in 's-Gravenhage, Netherlands – May 4, 2000 in Heeze) was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir...
Hendrik Lorentz
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation...
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He pioneered refrigeration techniques and explored how materials behaved when cooled to nearly absolute zero. This led to his discovery of...
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (29 December 1856 – 31 December 1894) was a Dutch mathematician. He was born in Zwolle and died in Toulouse, France. He was a pioneer in the field of moment problems and contributed to the study of continued fractions.
The...
Wander Johannes de Haas
Wander Johannes de Haas (March 2, 1878, Lisse – April 26, 1960, Bilthoven) was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect and the Einstein–de Haas effect.
Wander de Haas was...
Enrico Fermi
Enrico Fermi (29 September 1901 – 28 November 1954) was an Italian physicist, particularly remembered for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, nuclear and particle...
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein (pronounced /ˈælbərt ˈaɪnstaɪn/; German: [ˈalbɐt ˈaɪ̯nʃtaɪ̯n] ( listen); 14 March 1879–18 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist. His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the...
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Willebrord Snellius
Willebrord Snellius (born Willebrord Snel van Royen) (1580–30 October 1626, Leiden) was a Dutch astronomer and mathematician. In the west, especially the English speaking countries, his name has been attached to the law of refraction of light for...
Adriaan Fokker
Adriaan Daniël Fokker (17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972), was a Dutch physicist and musician.
Fokker was born in Buitenzorg, Dutch East Indies (now Bogor, Indonesia); he was a cousin of the aeronautical engineer Anthony Fokker. He studied mining...
Maarten Jansen
Prof. Dr. Maarten Evert Reinoud Gerard Nicolaas Jansen (born 4 October, 1952, Zeist) is a Dutch academic and professor of Mesoamerican archaeology and history. As of 2007 Jansen holds the position of Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden...
Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland
Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland (9 June 1854, Groningen – 11 February 1922, Leiden), also known as G.J.P.J. Bolland, was a Dutch autodidact (self-taught man), linguist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and lecturer. An excellent orator, he...
Hendrik Lenstra
Hendrik Willem Lenstra, Jr. (born 1949 in the Netherlands) is a Dutch mathematician.
Lenstra received his doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in 1977 and became a professor there in 1978. In 1987 he was appointed to the faculty of the...
Wim Blockmans
Wim Pieter Blockmans (b. 1945, Antwerp, Belgium) is Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent. He has been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002. He...
Ewine van Dishoeck
Ewine van Dishoeck (born 13 June 1955, Leiden) is a Dutch astronomer and chemist. She is Professor of Molecular Astrophysics and the director of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Laboratory for Astrophysics at the Leiden University. She is a member of...
Els Goulmy
Els Goulmy (born 27 November 1946, The Hague) is professor of transplantation biology, especially regarding minor histocompatibility antigen, at Leiden University. She was awarded the Spinozapremie in 2002.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven
Cornelis van Vollenhoven (8 May 1874, Dordrecht - 29 April 1933, Leiden) was a Dutch law professor and legal scholar, best known for his work on the legal systems of the East Indies.
Cornelis van Vollenhoven began his university studies at Leiden at...
Carlo Beenakker
Carlo W. J. Beenakker (born June 9, 1960) is a professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group, established in 1992.
Born in Leiden, he graduated there in 1982 and obtained his doctorate two years later. He...
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (8 February 1857 - 26 June 1936) was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and Advisor on Native Affairs to the colonial government of the Netherlands East Indies.
Born in Oosterhout in 1857, he became a...
Hans Ras
Johannes Jacobus (Hans) Ras (1 April 1926 – 22 October 2003) was emeritus professor of Javanese language and literature at Leiden University, the Netherlands. In 1961 he was lecturer at the University of Malaya, and in 1969 first representative in...
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga (Dutch pronunciation: [joːhɑn hœyzɪŋxaː]) (December 7, 1872 - February 1, 1945), was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and...
Nasr Abu Zayd
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, in Arabic: نصر حامد ابو زيد, (born July 10, 1943) is an Egyptian Qur'anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a humanistic Qur'anic hermeneutics.
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd was...
Charles de l'Écluse
Charles de l'Écluse, L'Escluse, or Carolus Clusius (Arras, February 19, 1526 – Leiden, April 4, 1609), seigneur de Watènes, was the Flemish doctor and pioneering botanist, perhaps the most influential of all 16th century scientific horticulturists....
Willem de Sitter
Willem de Sitter (6 May 1872 – 20 November 1934) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer.
Born in Sneek, De Sitter studied mathematics at the University of Groningen and then joined the Groningen astronomical laboratory. He worked at the...
Jan Oort
Jan Hendrik Oort (28 April 1900 – 5 November 1992) was a Dutch astronomer. He was a pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. The Oort cloud of comets bears his name.
Oort was born in Franeker, Friesland and studied in Groningen with Jacobus...
Franciscus Gomarus
Franciscus Gomarus (January 30, 1563, Bruges - January 11, 1641, Groningen), was a Dutch theologian, a strict Calvinist and opponent of the teaching of Jacobus Arminius (and his followers), which was formally judged at the Synod of Dort (1618-1619)....
Willem Einthoven
Willem Einthoven (Semarang, May 21, 1860 – Leiden, September 29, 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) in 1903 and received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1924 for it.
Einthoven was...
Justus Lipsius
Justus Lipsius, Joost Lips or Josse Lips (18 October 1547 — 23 March 1606), was a Flemish philologist and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most...
Daniel Heinsius
Daniel Heinsius (or Heins) (9 June 1580 – 25 February 1655), one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance, was born at Ghent.
The troubles of the Spanish war drove Heinsius' parents to settle first at Veere in Zeeland, then to England,...
Gerhard Johann Vossius
Gerrit Janszoon Vos (1577 - March 19, 1649) was a Dutch classical scholar and theologian.
He was the son of Johannes (Jan) Vos, a Protestant of the Netherlands, who fled from persecution into the Palatinate and briefly became pastor in the village...
Pieter Zeeman
Pieter Zeeman (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈzeːmɑn]) (25 May 1865 – 9 October 1943) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
Pieter Zeeman was born in Zonnemaire, a small...
David Ruhnken
David Ruhnken (2 January 1723 – 14 May 1798) was a Dutch classical scholar of German origin.
Ruhnken was born in Bedlin (today Bydlino) near Stolp, Pomerania (today Słupsk, Poland). After he had attended Latin school at Königsberg (1737-1741), his...
Joseph Justus Scaliger
Joseph Justus Scaliger (August 5, 1540–January 21, 1609) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and Ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and Ancient Egyptian...
Paul Ehrenfest
Paul Ehrenfest (January 18, 1880 – September 25, 1933) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician, who obtained Dutch citizenship on March 24, 1922. He made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum...
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave (Voorhout, December 31, 1668 – Leiden, September 23, 1738) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital. His main achievement...
Femme Gaastra
Femme Simon Gaastra (born in Leeuwarden on 23 July 1945) is Professor of maritime history at the University of Leiden and a leading expert on the history of the Dutch East India Company.
Gaastra attended the Rijks Lyceum in Heerenveen and began his...
Bas Haring
Sebastiaan (Bas) Haring (born April 23, 1968 in De Bilt) is a Dutch philosopher and writer of popular science and children's literature. He holds the Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Leiden. He also acts as a...
Ludwig Waldmann
Ludwig Waldmann (June 8, 1913 in Fürth – February 9, 1980) was a German physicist who specialized in transport phenomena in gases. He derived the Waldmann-Snider equation.
Waldmann completed his Ph.D. under Arnold Sommerfeld at the University of...
Jan Woltjer
Jan Woltjer (August 3, 1891, Amsterdam – January 28, 1946, Leiden?) was a Dutch astronomer.
Woltjer was the son of the classical scholar Jan Woltjer. On Dec 13, 1916 he married Hillegonda de Vries in Groningen. He worked and taught at Leiden...
Douwe Breimer
Douwe Durks Breimer (born 24 November 1943 in Oudemirdum, Netherlands) is a Dutch pharmacologist and was both rector magnificus and president of the Executive Board of Leiden University, The Netherlands.
Breimer studied pharmacology at the...
Michael Lew
Prof. Michael S. Lew (born 19 April 1965) is a distinguished scientist in multimedia information search and retrieval at Leiden University, The Netherlands. He has published over 7 books and 100 scientific articles in the areas of multimedia search,...
Hermann Witsius
Hermann Witsius (Herman Wits or in Latin Hermannus Witsius) (February 12, 1636 - October 22, 1708) was a Dutch theologian.
He was born at Enkhuizen, North Holland, and studied at Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht. He was ordained in the ministry,...
Kofi Abrefa Busia
Kofi Abrefa Busia (11 July 1913 – 28 August 1978) was Prime Minister of Ghana from 1969–72. He was born in Wenchi, in the then British colony of Gold Coast (now called Ghana). He was educated at Methodist School, Wenchi, Mfantsipim School, Cape...
Adam Kuper
Adam Kuper (born 1941) is an anthropologist most closely linked to the school of social anthropology. In his works, he often treats the notion of "culture" skeptically, focusing as much on how it is used as on what it means.
Born and raised in South...
Ludolph van Ceulen
Ludolph van Ceulen (28 January 1540 – 31 December 1610) was a German mathematician from Hildesheim. Like many Germans during the Catholic Inquisitions, he emigrated to the Netherlands.
Ceulen moved to Delft to teach fencing and mathematics. In 1594...
