LOCATION

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

Population:
180,848 (2005)

SCHOOLS

School	Founded
Groningen University	1614

BIRTHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Daniel Bernoulli	Mathematician	8-Feb-1700	27-Mar-1782	Fluid dynamics
Pete Hoekstra	Politician	30-Oct-1953		Congressman from Michigan, 1993-2011
Jozef Israëls	Painter	27-Jan-1824	12-Aug-1911	Dutch scene painter
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes	Physicist	21-Sep-1853	21-Feb-1926	Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity
Maarten Schmidt	Astronomer	28-Dec-1929		Co-Discoverer of quasars

DEATHS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Adriaan Blaauw	Astronomer	12-Apr-1914	1-Dec-2010	Evolving galaxies

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