Honours and Awards
Zernike has an Erdős number of six. The university complex to the north of the city of Groningen is named after him (Zernike park), as is the crater Zernike on the Moon. Zernike's great-nephew Gerardus 't Hooft won the Nobel Prize in physics in 1999.
The Oz Enterprise, a Linux distribution was named after Leonard Salomon Ornstein and Frederik Zernike.
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“If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelist honours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)