Gerard Adriaan Acket (born 9 September 1935, Utrecht) [1] is a Dutch electrical engineer and emeritus professor. He worked in the faculties of electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology between 1981 and 1988 [2] and Eindhoven University of Technology between 1991 and 2000. [3] [4] His workfield was optoelectronics. [4]
Acket became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. [5]
Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, and The Hague, to the northwest. Together with them, it is part of both the Rotterdam–The Hague metropolitan area and the Randstad.
Jacobus Henricus "Henry" van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium for the first time, in 1908. He also discovered superconductivity in 1911.
Delft University of Technology, also known as TU Delft, is the oldest and largest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. As of 2022 it is ranked by QS World University Rankings among the top 10 engineering and technology universities in the world. In the fields of architecture and civil engineering, it was ranked 2nd in the world, after MIT.
George Eugene Uhlenbeck was a Dutch-American theoretical physicist.
Johannes Bosscha Jr. was a Dutch physicist.
Willem Louis van der Poel is a pioneering Dutch computer scientist, who is known for designing one of the first computers to be designed in the Netherlands, the Zeer Eenvoudige Binaire Reken Automaat (ZEBRA), translated as Very Simple Binary Automatic Calculator.
Adrianus Teunis (Aad) de Hoop is a Dutch electrical engineer. De Hoop was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He received his MSc degree in electrical engineering (1950) and his PhD degree in the technological sciences (1958) from Delft University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands, both with the highest distinction. He served Delft University of Technology as an assistant professor (1950–1957), associate professor (1957–1960) and full professor in electromagnetic theory and applied mathematics (1960–1996). Since 1996, he is Lorentz Chair Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics Computer Science of this university. In 1970, he founded at Delft the Laboratory of Electromagnetic Research, which has developed into a world-class center for electro-magnetics, having a huge impact on the world's electromagnetic community and on electromagnetic research and education in the Netherlands.
Adrianus Willem "Aad" van der Vaart is a Dutch professor of Stochastics at the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at Delft University of Technology.
Mark van Loosdrecht is a Dutch professor in environmental biotechnology at Delft University of Technology. He was the creator of Nereda, a wastewater treatment technology developed by a cooperation between the Delft University of Technology, the Dutch Foundation for Applied Water Research (STOWA) and Royal HaskoningDHV.
Jurjen Anno Battjes is a Dutch civil engineer. He was a professor of fluid dynamics at Delft University of Technology until his retirement in 2004.
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.
Augustinus Johannes "Guus" Berkhout is a Dutch engineer who has worked for the oil and gas industry, and as a professor.
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.
Joseph J.M. Braat is a Dutch optical engineer and scientist. Between 1973 and 1998 he worked at Philips Research Laboratories. He was professor of optics at Delft University of Technology between 1998 and 2008.
Marileen Dogterom is a Dutch biophysicist and professor at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at Delft University of Technology. She published in Science, Cell, and Nature and is notable for her research of the cell cytoskeleton. For this research, she was awarded the 2018 Spinoza Prize.
Frank den Hollander is a Dutch mathematician.
Kees Teer was a Dutch electrical engineer. He was director of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium from 1968 until 1985.
Albert"Ab"van Kammen is a Dutch molecular biologist and virologist. He was a professor of molecular biology at Wageningen University and Research between 1972 and 1996.