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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—Max Frisch (1911–1991)
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—Grace Baruch (20th century)