Science, Technology and Research
Most important and internationally awarded scholars and scientists are:
15th Century:
- Laurens Janszoon Coster, (1370–1440), printer
16th Century:
- Desiderius Erasmus, (1466/1469-1536), humanist
- Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert (1522–1590), humanist
17th Century:
- Baruch de Spinoza, (1632–1677), philosopher
- Herman Boerhaave, (1668–1738), physician
- Ludolph van Ceulen, (1540–1610), mathematician
- Cornelius Drebbel, (1572–1633), inventor & engineer
- Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), (1583–1645), jurist & philosopher
- Christiaan Huygens, (1629–1695), mathematician, astronomer & physicist
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, (1632–1723), scientist
- Anna Maria van Schurman, (1607–1678), first Dutch female university student and scholar
- Simon Stevin, (1548–1620), mathematician & engineer
- Jan Swammerdam, (1637–1680), scientist
18th century;
- Willem 's Gravesande, (1688–1742), philosopher and mathematician
- Pieter van Musschenbroek, (1692–1761), scientist
- Daniel Bernoulli, (1700–1782), mathematician & physicist
19th century:
- C.H.D. Buys Ballot, (1817–1890), chemist & meteorologist
- H. G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen, (1838–1923), astronomer
- Frederik Kaiser, (1808–1872), astronomer
- Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, (1856–1894), mathematician
20th Century:
- Tobias Asser, (1838–1913), jurist
- Evert Willem Beth, (1908–1964), mathematical logician
- Nico Bloembergen, (1920-), physicist
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, (1881–1966), mathematician
- Hendrik Casimir, (1909–2000), physicist
- Paul J. Crutzen, (1933-), atmospheric chemist
- Peter Debye, (1884–1966), chemist
- Edsger Dijkstra, (1930–2002), computer scientist
- Eugène Dubois, (1858–1944), paleontologist & anatomist
- Christiaan Eijkman, (1858–1930), physician & pathologist
- Willem Einthoven, (1860–1927), physician,
- Anthony Fokker, (1890–1939), aviation engineer
- Samuel Abraham Goudsmit, (1902–1978), physicist
- Arend Heyting, (1898–1980), mathematician
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, (1852–1911), chemist
- Gerardus 't Hooft, (1946-), physicist
- Johan Huizinga, (1872–1945), historian
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, (1853–1926), physicist
- Jacobus Kapteyn, (1851–1922), astronomer
- Willem Hendrik Keesom, (1878–1956), physicist
- Tjalling Koopmans, (1910–1985), economist 1975
- Willem Kolff, (1911–2009), physician & inventor
- Hendrik Anthony Kramers, (1894–1952), physicist
- Hendrik Lorentz, (1853–1928), physicist
- Simon van der Meer, (1925-), physicist
- Jan Oort, (1900–1992), astronomer
- Jan Tinbergen, (1903–1994), economist
- Nico Tinbergen, (1907–1988), ethologist
- Martinus J. G. Veltman, (1931-), physicist
- Hugo de Vries, (1848–1937), geneticist
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals, (1837–1923), physicist
- Pieter Zeeman, (1865–1943), physicist
- Frits Zernike, (1888–1966), physicist
- Hendrik Zwaardemaker, (1857–1930), scientist
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Famous quotes containing the words technology and/or research:
“Radio put technology into storytelling and made it sick. TV killed it. Then you were locked into somebody else’s sighting of that story. You no longer had the benefit of making that picture for yourself, using your imagination. Storytelling brings back that humanness that we have lost with TV. You talk to children and they don’t hear you. They are television addicts. Mamas bring them home from the hospital and drag them up in front of the set and the great stare-out begins.”
—Jackie Torrence (b. 1944)
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—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)