The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed in the Trippenhuis in Amsterdam.
Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf FRSE is a Dutch theoretical physicist,mathematician and string theorist,and the current Minister of Education,Culture and Science in the Netherlands. From July 2012 until his inauguration as minister in January 2022,he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,New Jersey,and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam.
Marius Job Cohen is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012.
Pieter Timotheus "Tim" de Zeeuw is a Dutch astronomer specializing in the formation,structure and dynamics of galaxies. From 2007 to 2017 he was the director general of European Southern Observatory. He is married to astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck. In May 2022,Leiden University suspended him after an internal review concluded that over several years he repeatedly belittled and insulted women in public and abused his position of power as a professor by threatening to damage their scientific careers;and that in addition to intimidation and inappropriate behavior there was "a component of sexual harassment". The Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics announced that they will no longer work with him and the European Southern Observatory banned him from accessing their premises.
Dick Ferdinand Swaab is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist. He is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was until 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Coenraad Nicolaas (Coen) Teulings is a Dutch economist and distinguished professor at Utrecht University. He was formerly professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge and former Director of the Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis,as well as Chairman of Merifin Capital.
Theodorus Cornelis Michael Josephus (Theo) van de Klundert is a Dutch economist,and Emeritus Professor of Economics at Tilburg University.
Herman van Bekkum was a Dutch organic chemist. He was professor of Catalysis in Organic Chemistry between 1971 and 1998 at Delft University of Technology. He served as rector magnificus of the university between 1975 and 1976. He was an expert in the field of carbohydrate chemistry and zeolites.
Jan H. van Bemmel is a Dutch former professor of medical informatics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He was rector magnificus of the Erasmus University Rotterdam between 2000 and 2003.
Desiderius Gustav Hermann"Dirk"Latzko was a Dutch mechanical engineer. He was a professor of mechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology from 1961 to 1988. Latzko focused on the construction of nuclear reactors.
Johannes "Johan" Bouma is a Dutch soil scientist. He worked at the Netherlands Soil Survey Institute from 1975 to 1983 and was professor of soil science at Wageningen University and Research Centre between 1983 and 2002.
Hans Herman Cohen was a Dutch microbiologist. He was director-general of the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) between 1984 and 1986. As a microbiologist Cohen worked on development of polio vaccines in the Netherlands.
Joan Henri van der Waals was a Dutch physicist. He was professor of experimental physics at Leiden University between 1967 and 1989. He specialized in molecular physics and clathrate hydrates. One of van der Waals's most significant contributions to the study of hydrates was a series of papers between 1953 and 1958,which eventually culminated in the 1959 publication of his paper on the canonical partition function for clathrates,along with J. C. Platteeuw. To create this partition function,van der Waals made a number of simplifying assumptions,most prominently that neighboring guest gas molecules cannot interact and there is a maximum of one guest per cage.
Harm Tjalling "Tjalling" Waterbolk was a Dutch archaeologist. He was a professor of archaeology and director of the Biological-Archaeological Institute at the University of Groningen between 1954 and 1987.
Albert"Ab"van Kammen was a Dutch molecular biologist and virologist. He was a professor of molecular biology at Wageningen University and Research between 1972 and 1996.
Pieter Dirk"Pim"Jungerius was a Dutch physical geographer. He was a professor of physical geography,climatology and cartography at the University of Amsterdam between 1970 and 1998.
Andries Frans Sanders is a Dutch psychologist. In the 1980s he was professor at RWTH Aachen Technical University and served as director of its Institut für Psychologie. Sanders was professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam between 1989 and 1998.
Willem Albertus"Wim"van Es is a Dutch archaeologist. Between 1965 and 1988 he was director of the Rijksdienst voor het Oudheidkundig Bodemonderzoek.
Hendrik Coenraad"Coen"Hemker is a Dutch biochemist and academic administrator. He was one of the founders of Maastricht University and was its rector magnificus from 1982 to 1984. He was a professor of biochemistry from 1975 until 1999. In his research he has mainly studied thrombosis and hemostasis.
Jacobus Willibrordus"Jaap"Zwemmer is a Dutch fiscal jurist. He was a professor of tax law at the University of Amsterdam between 1980 and 2006. He also served as interim rector magnificus of the university in 2007. Zwemmer furthermore was a part time tax judge and wrote fiscal opinions. After his retirement he dealth with academic integrity matters. He additionally spent spells on the supervisory boards of various medical institutions.
