David Saunders van der Knaap (born 7 September 1948) is a former South African cricketer active from 1967 to 1979 who played for Lancashire and Transvaal. He was born in Johannesburg. He appeared in 43 first-class matches as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm off break. He scored 289 runs with a highest score of 44 and held 39 catches. He took 121 wickets with a best analysis of six for 61. [1]
Rafael Ferdinand van der Vaart is a Dutch former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Cornelis (Cees) van der Knaap is a Dutch politician. He was State Secretary for Defence for the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA).
Leukoencephalopathy with vanishing white matter is an autosomal recessive neurological disease. The cause of the disease are mutations in any of the 5 genes encoding subunits of the translation initiation factor eIF2B: EIF2B1, EIF2B2, EIF2B3, EIF2B4, or EIF2B5. The disease belongs to a family of conditions called the Leukodystrophies.
Translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit epsilon is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2B5 gene.
Translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit beta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2B2 gene.
Translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit alpha is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2B1 gene.
Translation initiation factor eIF-2B subunit delta is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EIF2B4 gene.
The Spinoza Prize is an annual award of 1.5 million euro prize money, to be spent on new research given by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The award is the highest scientific award in the Netherlands. It is named after the philosopher Baruch de Spinoza.
Night and Fog is a 1956 French documentary short film. Directed by Alain Resnais, it was made ten years after the liberation of Nazi concentration camps. The title is taken from the Nacht und Nebel program of abductions and disappearances decreed by Nazi Germany. The documentary features the abandoned grounds of Auschwitz and Majdanek established in occupied Poland while describing the lives of prisoners in the camps. Night and Fog was made in collaboration with scriptwriter Jean Cayrol, a survivor of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. The music of the soundtrack was composed by Hanns Eisler.
Megalencephalic leukoencephalopathy with subcortical cysts is a form of hereditary CNS demyelinating disease. It belongs to a group of disorders called leukodystrophies. It is characterized by early-onset enlargement of the head (macrocephaly) as well as delayed-onset neurological deterioration to include spasticity, epilepsy, and lack of muscular coordination. MLC does not appear to be a disease that is fatal at birth or early in life despite its symptoms, although the number of patients throughout history known to have the disease is fairly limited.
Mark van der Maarel is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Eredivisie club Utrecht, where he has spent his entire professional career. Born in Arnhem, he is of Indonesian descent through his mother, who is from Indonesia.
Richard Saunders van der Knaap is a former South African cricketer. Van der Knaap was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province.
Ribose-5-phosphate isomerase deficiency is a human disorder caused by mutations in ribose-5-phosphate isomerase, an enzyme of the pentose phosphate pathway. With only four diagnosed patients over a 27-year period, RPI deficiency is the second rarest disease known as of now, being beaten only by Fields Condition affecting two known individuals, Catherine and Kirstie Fields.
The Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 64 No. 3, composed by Frédéric Chopin, is the final waltz by Chopin that was published in his lifetime. It was dedicated to Countess Katarzyna Branicka. The waltz is in A-flat major and features a central section in C major.
Van der Knaap is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Gaspar Peeter Verbruggen or Gasparo Pedro Verbruggen was a Flemish still life painter who is principally known for his decorative still lifes with flowers and fruit. He collaborated with figure artists on compositions which combined figures with a still life element. He was active in Antwerp and The Hague.
Marjo S. van der Knaap is a Dutch professor of pediatric neurology at VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam University Medical Centers. She was a winner of the 2008 Spinoza Prize. Her research focuses on white matter disorders.
Astrid van der Knaap is a Dutch badminton player, born in The Hague. She competed in women's singles at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She was four times the Dutch National Ladies Singles Champion in 1988, 1991, 1993 & 1994. She was runner-up at the World Grand Prix Dutch Open event in 1988. She won the Swiss Open twice in 1987 & 1992.
SV VELO is an omnisports club from Wateringen, Netherlands. It has branches for handball, badminton, volleyball, football, checkers, boules, road cycling, and martial arts. The first squad football plays in the Eerste Klasse. The badminton division is a leading badminton club in Europe.
Willem Albert Scholten was a Dutch industrialist and landowner. He established the potato starch factory Eureka in Foxhol which laid the foundation of an industrial empire. Scholten would own 24 factories in Europe. He owned large plots of land in Drenthe for peat extraction, and was one of the founders of what would become the Holland America Line. In Groningen, Scholten built the Scholtenhuis, a large residential house on the Grote Markt, the main square, opposite the City Hall.