Leiden University is a public research university in Leiden,Netherlands. It was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William,Prince of Orange,making it the oldest institution of higher education in the Netherlands.
Pieter Zeeman was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Hendrik Lorentz for his discovery of the Zeeman effect.
Douwe Durk Breimer is a Dutch pharmacologist and was both rector magnificus and president of the Executive Board of Leiden University,The Netherlands.
Henk Wesseling was a Dutch historian. He was a professor of contemporary history at Leiden University,former rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study between 1995 and 2002.
Pieter (Piet) Rietveld was a Dutch economist and Professor in Transport Economics at the Vrije Universiteit,Amsterdam,and a fellow at the Tinbergen Institute. He was among the top researchers in economic geography according to IDEAS/RePEc.
Pieter Willem "Piet" Kasteleyn was a Dutch physicist famous for his contributions to the field of statistical mechanics.
Koenraad Wolter Swart (1916–1992) was a Dutch-American historian,best known for his work on the role of William of Orange in the Dutch Revolt,and for his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between the state and state functionaries in the seventeenth century.
Corinne Lisette Hofman FBA is a Dutch professor of Caribbean Archaeology at Leiden University since 2007. She was a winner of the 2014 Spinoza Prize.
Ineke Sluiter is a Dutch classicist and professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University since 1998. Her research focuses on language,literature,and public discourse in classical antiquity. She was a winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize. Sluiter has been president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since June 2020,and previously served as vice president from 2018 to 2020.
George Blasse was a Dutch chemist. He was a professor of solid-state chemistry at Utrecht University for most of his career.
Hendrik Wilhelm "Henk" Bodewitz was a Dutch Sanskrit scholar. He was a professor at the Universities of Utrecht and later Leiden between 1976 and 2002.
Johannes Alphonsus Marie "Johan" Bleeker is a Dutch space research and technology scientist. He was director of the Netherlands Institute for Space Research from 1983 to 2003. He was involved in the setting up of the Horizon 2000 and Horizon 2000+ long term space science programs of the European Space Agency.
RenéBernards is a Dutch cancer researcher. He is professor of molecular carcinogenesis at Utrecht University and head of the section of molecular carcinogenesis at the Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoekziekenhuis. Bernards is a winner of the 2005 Spinoza Prize.
Herman Frans Anna baron Van der Wee is a Belgian economic historian. He was a full professor of social and economic history at the KU Leuven from 1969 to 1993. The academic output of Van der Wee spans economic history,the history of banking,financial history. He has performed research on the period from the Middle Ages to the present time. Geographically he has performed broad research as well,looking into Antwerp,Belgium,the Low Countries,Europe and the world.
Willem Rutger van Zwet was a Dutch mathematical statistician. He was a professor at Leiden University between 1968 and 1999.
Dirk Jan"Dick"van de Kaa is a Dutch demographer. From 1970 to 1987 he was the first director of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute. From 1987 to 1995 he was director and rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study. Van de Kaa was professor of demography at the University of Amsterdam between 1978 and 1998.
Ans van Kemenade is a Dutch professor of English linguistics at the Radboud University Nijmegen specializing in the history of the English language.
Wim van Saarloos is a Dutch physicist,academic and researcher. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University
Jaap Mansfeld is a Dutch Emeritus Professor of philosopher and a historian of philosophy.
Alexander Jakob Boris Zehnder is a Swiss microbiologist. He spent most of his career as professor of microbiology at Wageningen University &Research (1982–1992) and later as professor of environmental biotechnology at ETH Zurich (1992–2004). Zehnder also was director of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology during this latter period. From 2004 until 2008 he was President of the ETH Board.
