EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Leiden, Netherlands

Founding Date:
8-Feb-1575

Motto:
Praesidium Libertatis

Enrollment:
17,000

Official Website:
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Pope Adrian VI	Religion	2-Mar-1459	14-Sep-1523	Roman Catholic Pope, 1522-23
Mark Akenside	Poet	9-Nov-1721	23-Jun-1770	The Pleasures of the Imagination
Ayaan Hirsi Ali	Activist	13-Nov-1969		Submission
Queen Beatrix I	Royalty	31-Jan-1938		Queen of the Netherlands, 1980-2013
Adriaan Blaauw	Astronomer	12-Apr-1914	1-Dec-2010	Evolving galaxies
Nicolaas Bloembergen	Physicist	11-Mar-1920		Nonlinear optics
Bart Jan Bok	Astronomer	28-Apr-1906	5-Aug-1983	Bok globules
Jan Hendrik Brand	Head of State	6-Dec-1823	14-Jul-1888	President of the Orange Free State
Dirk Brouwer	Astronomer	1-Sep-1902	31-Jan-1966	Celestial mechanics
Sir Thomas Browne	Author	19-Oct-1605	19-Oct-1682	Pseudodoxia Epidemica
Edsger Dijkstra	Computer Programmer	11-May-1930	6-Aug-2002	Enemy of the goto statement
John Dury	Religion	1596	26-Sep-1680	The Reformed Librarie-Keeper
Enrico Fermi	Physicist	29-Sep-1901	29-Nov-1954	First controlled nuclear chain reaction
Henry Fielding	Novelist	22-Apr-1707	8-Oct-1754	Tom Jones
Justin Fox	Author	28-Jan-1964		The Myth of the Rational Market
Oliver Goldsmith	Author	10-Nov-1730	4-Apr-1774	The Vicar of Wakefield
Samuel Goudsmit	Physicist	11-Jul-1902	4-Dec-1978	Conceived idea of Quantum Spin
Nehemiah Grew	Botanist	26-Sep-1641	25-Mar-1712	Anatomy of Plants
Albrecht von Haller	Doctor	16-Oct-1708	12-Dec-1777	Elementa Physiologiae Corporis Humani
James E. Hansen	Scientist	29-Mar-1941		Greenhouse effect and global warming
Margaret Heckler	Politician	21-Jun-1931		US Secretary of HHS, 1983-85
Ejnar Hertzsprung	Astronomer	8-Oct-1873	21-Oct-1967	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Johannes Hevelius	Astronomer	28-Jan-1611	28-Jan-1687	Selenographia
Jacobus H. van 't Hoff	Chemist	30-Aug-1852	1-Mar-1911	Three-dimensional molecular properties
James Hutton	Geologist	3-Jun-1726	26-Mar-1797	Theory of the Earth
Christiaan Huygens	Physicist	14-Apr-1629	8-Jul-1695	Wave theory of light
Niels K. Jerne	Scientist	23-Dec-1911	7-Oct-1994	Immune theory (anti-antibody)
Jacobus C. Kapteyn	Astronomer	19-Jan-1851	18-Jun-1922	Star streaming
Willem Johan Kolff	Scientist	14-Feb-1911	11-Feb-2009	Artificial kidney, artificial heart
Tjalling C. Koopmans	Economist	28-Aug-1910	26-Feb-1985	Linear programming
Hendrik Kramers	Physicist	17-Feb-1894	24-Apr-1952	Kramers dispersion theory
Cees J. A. van Lede	Business	c. 1943		CEO of Azko Nobel, 1994-2003
Hendrik Lorentz	Physicist	18-Jul-1853	4-Feb-1928	Electrons
Joseph Luns	Politician	28-Aug-1911	17-Jul-2002	Dutch Foreign Minister, 1952-71
Willem J. Luyten	Astronomer	7-Mar-1899	21-Nov-1994	Stellar mortician
Bernard de Mandeville	Author	Nov-1670	21-Jan-1733	The Fable of the Bees
Marcel Minnaert	Astronomer	12-Feb-1893	26-Oct-1970	Solar spectrophotometry
Martin Rodbell	Scientist	1-Dec-1925	7-Dec-1998	G-protein cell signal transmission
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer	Politician	3-Apr-1948		NATO Secretary General, 2004-09
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars
Sir Robert Sibbald	Doctor	15-Apr-1641	Aug-1722	Scottish physician and antiquary
Jan Swammerdam	Naturalist	12-Feb-1637	15-Feb-1680	Biblia Naturae
Albert Szent-Györgyi	Scientist	16-Sep-1893	22-Oct-1986	Vitamins C and B2
Morris Tabaksblat	Business	1937		Chairman of Reed Elsevier, 1999-2005
Igor Y. Tamm	Physicist	8-Jul-1895	12-Apr-1971	Cherenkov radiation
Jan Tinbergen	Economist	12-Apr-1903	9-Jun-1994	Economic Policy
Nikolaas Tinbergen	Zoologist	15-Apr-1907	21-Dec-1988	Grand Master of Ethology
George Uhlenbeck	Physicist	6-Dec-1900	31-Oct-1988	Conceived idea of Quantum Spin
Paul Verhoeven	Film Director	18-Jul-1938		Starship Troopers
Gerhard Johann Vossius	Scholar	1577	19-Mar-1649	Dutch classical scholar
Gijs de Vries	Politician	22-Feb-1956		EU Terrorism czar
Johannes Diderik van der Waals	Physicist	23-Nov-1837	9-Mar-1923	Investigated states of matter
John Wilkes	Politician	17-Oct-1725	26-Dec-1797	Colorful London radical
King Willem-Alexander	Royalty	27-Apr-1967		King of the Netherlands
Johan de Witt	Politician	24-Sep-1625	20-Aug-1672	Leader of Holland, 1653-72
Pieter Zeeman	Physicist	25-May-1865	9-Oct-1943	Discovered Zeeman Effect

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Adriaan Blaauw	Astronomer	12-Apr-1914	1-Dec-2010	Evolving galaxies
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Willem Einthoven	Scientist	21-May-1860	28-Sep-1927	Invented the electrocardiograph
Ejnar Hertzsprung	Astronomer	8-Oct-1873	21-Oct-1967	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Hendrik Kramers	Physicist	17-Feb-1894	24-Apr-1952	Kramers dispersion theory
Justus Lipsius	Scholar	18-Oct-1547	23-Mar-1606	Belgian scholar and author
Hendrik Lorentz	Physicist	18-Jul-1853	4-Feb-1928	Electrons
Jan Hendrik Oort	Astronomer	28-Apr-1900	5-Nov-1992	Theory of the origin of comets
Perizonius	Scholar	26-Oct-1651	6-Apr-1715	Animadversiones Historicae
Joseph Scaliger	Scholar	5-Aug-1540	21-Jan-1609	De emendatione temporum
Jan Tinbergen	Economist	12-Apr-1903	9-Jun-1994	Economic Policy
Nikolaas Tinbergen	Zoologist	15-Apr-1907	21-Dec-1988	Grand Master of Ethology
Gerhard Johann Vossius	Scholar	1577	19-Mar-1649	Dutch classical scholar
Gijs de Vries	Politician	22-Feb-1956		EU Terrorism czar
Pieter Zeeman	Physicist	25-May-1865	9-Oct-1943	Discovered Zeeman Effect

ADMINISTRATORS AND TRUSTEES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Willem de Sitter	Astronomer	6-May-1872	19-Nov-1934	Expanding space
Ejnar Hertzsprung	Astronomer	8-Oct-1873	21-Oct-1967	Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
Morris Tabaksblat	Business	1937		Chairman of Reed Elsevier, 1999-2005
Gerhard Johann Vossius	Scholar	1577	19-Mar-1649	Dutch classical scholar

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