VU University Medical Center Amsterdam is the university hospital affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. It is rated one of the best academic medical centers in the country in terms of patient care and research. It is located next to Amsterdam's A10 ringway in the southwestern part of the city, next to the campus of the Vrije Universiteit and close to Schiphol airport.
Freek Jacobus Vonk is a Dutch biologist who specializes in herpetology with a special interest in snake venom. He travels the world in search of the most spectacular and bizarre creatures. He has been bitten by a number of venomous snakes, almost lost his arm due to a Caribbean reef shark bite and has housed several parasites in his own body.
Pieter Hennipman was a Dutch economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Amsterdam, who is considered the "leading Dutch economist of the post-war period."
Hugo Albert Keuzenkamp is a Dutch economist, administrator, and Professor of Insurance Studies at Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Amsterdam.
Jacobus Franciscus (J.F.) Haccoû was a Dutch economist, Professor of Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam and first director of SEO Economic Research, known for his work on the futures exchange of goods and the economic situation in Dutch East Indies.
Jacobus Johannes (Joop) Klant, was a Dutch economist, novelist and professor of political economy at the University of Amsterdam.
Anton Julius (Ton) Butter was a Dutch economist, Associate Professor the Department of Economics of the University of Amsterdam and deputy director of SEO Economic Research.
Johannes Gerard (Jan) Lambooy is a Dutch social geographer and emeritus professor Economic geography and Urban economics at the University of Amsterdam.
Folkert de Roos was a Dutch economist and Professor of Economics at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Robert Alphonse Paul (Bob) Van Straelen is a Belgian economist and organizational theorist, and Emeritus Professor at the Antwerp Management School, known for his work on large empirical macroeconomic models.
Jeroen Cornelis Johannes Maria van den Bergh is an environmental economist of Dutch origin. As of January 2015 he was ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and deputy director for Research of its Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, and professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at VU University Amsterdam.
Otto Dirk Duintjer was a Dutch philosopher.
Pieter Jacobus (Piet) Meertens was a Dutch scholar of literature, dialects, and ethnology. He founded the institutes which later merged into the Meertens Instituut, of which he was the director until 1965.
Cornelis Johannes "Cor" van Dijkum is a Dutch sociologist, consultant and academic at the Utrecht University, known for his contributions in the field of methodology for complex societal problems.
Anton Peter Barten was a Dutch economist.
George Antoon Philip Weijer (1891-1979) was a business representative in colonial Indonesia, an economics professor at the University of Utrecht, and a government advisor and company director in the Netherlands.
Rolf Hendrik Siemssen was a Dutch-German nuclear physicist. He was a professor of experimental nuclear physics at the University of Groningen between 1971 and 1998. Siemssen was director of the Kernfysisch Versneller Instituut between 1972 and 1991.
The Descartes-Huygens Prize is an yearly scientific prize created in 1995 by the French and the Dutch governments, and attributed to two scientists of international level, a French one chosen by the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen and a Dutch one chosen by the Académie des sciences, to reward their work and their contributions to the French-Dutch cooperation.
Willem Frederik (Fred) van Raaij is a Dutch psychologist and professor.
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.
