het Bildt is a former municipality in the province of Friesland in the northern Netherlands; its capital was Sint Annaparochie. The population was 10,610 in 2017. On 1 January 2018 it merged with the municipalities of Franekeradeel, Menameradiel and parts of Littenseradiel to form the new municipality Waadhoeke.
The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica is a research center in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and is located at the Amsterdam Science Park. This institute is famous as the creation ground of the Python Programming Language. It was a founding member of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM).
The TT Circuit Assen is a motorsport race track built in 1955 and located in Assen, Netherlands. Host of the Dutch TT, it is popularly referred to as "The Cathedral" of motorcycling by the fans of the sport. It has a capacity of 110,000 spectators, including 60,000 seats. Since 1992, the circuit has also been part of the Superbike World Championship calendar.
Britta Böhler is a lawyer in international law and human rights, and a former member of the Dutch Senate for the GreenLeft Party. She was born in West Germany and became a Dutch citizen to run for political office.
Cornelis Hermanus Antonius "Kees" Koster was a Dutch computer scientist who was a professor in the Department of Informatics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands.
van is a preposition in the Dutch and Afrikaans languages, meaning "of" or "from" depending on the context.
Jeroen is a common Dutch male given name originating from the Greek Hieronymus, and is equivalent to the English name Jerome. Sometimes it is used for females. In the Netherlands, there are around 52,000 people who are named Jeroen, while in Belgium there are around 11,000 people of that name. Jeroen may refer to:
Dutch names consist of one or more given names and a surname. The given name, as in English, is usually gender-specific.
Aad is a Dutch short version of the given name Adrianus/Adriaan. It is also a less common Norwegian given name. People with this name include:
Bertrand Philip Sigismund Albrecht, Count of Gronsveld-van Diepenbroick-Impel was a former Dutch envoy in Berlin to Frederick the Great.
Van der Wal is a toponymic surname of Dutch origin. The original bearer of the name may have lived or worked at or near a "wal": a river embankment, quay, or rampage. In 2007, Van de(r) Wal was the 47th most common surname in the Netherlands. In Belgium, the form Van de Walle is more abundant. People with the name Van de(r) Wal include:
Elopiprazole is an antipsychotic drug of the phenylpiperazine class which was never marketed. It is similar in chemical structure to aripiprazole.
Cornelia "Cora" van Nieuwenhuizen-Wijbenga is a Dutch politician of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). She is the Minister of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Cabinet Rutte III since 26 October 2017.
Theo van Wijngaarden was a Dutch art forger.
The Rusluie were a community of Dutch origin living in St. Petersburg, Russia. They originally came from the city of Vriezenveen.
Bram Jan Loopstra was a Dutch computing pioneer who worked at the Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam and then at Electrologica with Adriaan van Wijngaarden, Carel S. Scholten and Gerrit Blaauw. From 1956 until at least 1963 he was technical director of Electrologica. At his death after a long illness on March 22, 1979, he was adjunct director of the Philips International Institute.
Jeroen van Wijngaarden is a Dutch politician, he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Netherlands for the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy between 1 July 2014 and 23 March 2017. He replaced Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, who became member of the European Parliament.
Peter van Emde Boas is a Dutch computer scientist and professor at the University of Amsterdam. He gained his doctorate in 1974 under Adriaan van Wijngaarden.
