Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a Dutch physicist and astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight of the space shuttle, making him the first and only Dutch citizen in space, until the flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to the International Space Station in 2004. He is not the first Dutch-born astronaut, because he is preceded by the naturalized American Lodewijk van den Berg. Ockels is currently professor of Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering...
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Wubbo Johannes Ockels is a Dutch physicist and astronaut. In 1985 he participated in a flight of the space shuttle, making him the first and only Dutch citizen in space, until the flight of Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers to the International Space Station in 2004. He is not the first Dutch-born astronaut, because he is preceded by the naturalized American Lodewijk van den Berg. Ockels is currently professor of Aerospace for Sustainable Engineering and Technology at the Delft University of Technology.
Ockels was born March 28, 1946, in Almelo but considers Groningen to be his hometown. His obtained his MSc degree in 1973 and subsequently a PhD degree in physics and mathematics in 1978 from the University of Groningen. His thesis was based on experimental work at the Nuclear-physics Accelerator Institute (KVI) in Groningen.
From 1973 to 1978, Ockels performed experimental investigations at the Nuclear Physics Accelerator Institute in Groningen. His work concerned the gamma-ray decay of...
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