Hendrik Antoon Lorentz was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He derived the Lorentz transformation of the special theory of relativity,as well as the Lorentz force,which describes the combined electric and magnetic forces acting on a charged particle in an electromagnetic field. Lorentz was also responsible for the Lorentz oscillator model,a classical model used to describe the anomalous dispersion observed in dielectric materials when the driving frequency of the electric field was near the resonant frequency,resulting in abnormal refractive indices.
Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
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.
Hendrik Anthony "Hans" Kramers was a Dutch physicist who worked with Niels Bohr to understand how electromagnetic waves interact with matter and made important contributions to quantum mechanics and statistical physics.
Wander Johannes de Haas was a Dutch physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov–de Haas effect,the De Haas–Van Alphen effect and the Einstein–de Haas effect.
Geertruida Luberta "Berta" de Haas-Lorentz was a Dutch physicist and professor of the Technical University of Delft. She was the first to theoretically study thermal fluctuations in electric circuits,treating electrons as Brownian particles. Consequently she is considered one of the pioneers of electrical noise theory. She was the daughter and doctoral student of Hendrik Lorentz. She went by the name Berta,or Ber.
Dissipative solitons (DSs) are stable solitary localized structures that arise in nonlinear spatially extended dissipative systems due to mechanisms of self-organization. They can be considered as an extension of the classical soliton concept in conservative systems. An alternative terminology includes autosolitons,spots and pulses.
Peter Mazur was an Austrian-born,Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.
Jan Zaanen was a Dutch professor of theoretical physics at Leiden University. He is best known for his contributions to the understanding of the quantum physics of the electrons in strongly correlated material,and in particular high temperature superconductivity. Zaanen's areas of interest were in the search for novel forms of collective quantum phenomena realized in systems built from mundane constituents like electrons,spins,and atoms.
Dirk ter Haar FRSE FIP DSc was an Anglo-Dutch physicist.
The Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in Amsterdam,Netherlands,is an independent research institute in the field of the humanities and social and behavioural sciences founded in 1970. The institute offers advanced research facility for international scholars of all of the humanities and social sciences. It is a member of Some Institutes for Advanced Study (SIAS) and the Network of European Institutes for Advanced Studies (NetIAS).
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.
Pieter Willem "Piet" Kasteleyn was a Dutch physicist famous for his contributions to the field of statistical mechanics.
Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen was a Dutch theoretical physicist,who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
Jacqueline Meulman is a Dutch statistician and professor emerita of Applied Statistics at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University.
Ineke Sluiter is a Dutch classicist and professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University since 1998. Her research focuses on language,literature,and public discourse in classical antiquity. She was a winner of the 2010 Spinoza Prize. Sluiter has been president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since June 2020,and previously served as vice president from 2018 to 2020.
Jan Theodoor Gerard Overbeek was a Dutch professor of physical chemistry at the Utrecht University.
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.
Ana Achúcarro Jiménez is a Spanish researcher,academic,and professor of particle astrophysics and quantum field theory at the University of Leiden in Leiden,Netherlands. Her research considers the early universe,supergravity,black holes and solitons.
Hans J. van Ommeren Dekker is a Dutch theoretical physicist in the line of Dirk Polder,Ralph Kronig,and Nico van Kampen. His scientific work inter alia involves laser theory,path integrals in curved spaces,nonequilibrium statistical mechanics,dissipation in quantum mechanics,and hydrodynamic turbulence. He is director of the Private Institute for Advanced Study and professor emeritus at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Amsterdam.
