Dutch Physicist
1. Frits Zernike (1888)
Dutch Physicist
Dutch scientist whose phase contrast microscope invention won the 1953 Nobel prize for physics. He also worked as a professor at Groningen University.
2. Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Krayenhoff (1758)
Dutch Physicist
Cornelis Rudolphus Theodorus Baron Krayenhoff was a physicist artist general hydraulic engineer cartographer and - against his will and for only a short time - Dutch Minister of War.
3. Robijn Bruinsma (1953)
Dutch Physicist
Robijn F. Bruinsma is a theoretical physicist and is Professor of Physics at the University of California at Los Angeles and Chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics for the...
4. Gerard 't Hooft (1946)
Dutch Physicist
Gerardus 't Hooft is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G....
5. Eric Mazur (1954)
Dutch Physicist
Eric Mazur is a physicist and educator at Harvard University and an entrepreneur in technology start-ups for the educational and military markets. Mazur's research is in experimental ultrafast optics and...
6. Jos Engelen (1950)
Dutch Physicist
Prof. dr. J. J. Engelen a Dutch physicist is Chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research since 1 January 2009. NWO is the principal Dutch science funding body.
7. Cees Dekker (1959)
Dutch Physicist
Cornelis Cees Dekker is a Dutch scientist known for his research on carbon nanotubes single-molecule biophysics and nanobiology. He has more than 240 publications including more than 20 papers in...
8. Erik Verlinde (1962)
Dutch Physicist
Erik Peter Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is the identical twin brother of physicist Herman Verlinde. The Verlinde formula which is important in conformal field...
9. Hendricus Stoof (1962)
Dutch Physicist
Hendricus T. C. Stoof is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His main interests are atomic physics condensed matter physics and many-body physics. He is...
10. Willem Vos (1964)
Dutch Physicist
Lambertus Vos is a Dutch scientist. He is Professor of Physics at the University of Twente and Groupleader at the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF In 2004 with...
11. Laurens W. Molenkamp (Unknow)
Dutch Physicist
Laurens W. Molenkamp is a Professor of physics and Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Würzburg. He is known for his work on semiconductor structures and topological insulators.
12. Carlo Beenakker (1960)
Dutch Physicist
Carlo W. J. Beenakker is a professor at Leiden University and leader of the university's mesoscopic physics group established in 1992.
13. Albert Polman (1961)
Dutch Physicist
Albert Polman is a Dutch physicist and director of the FOM-AMOLF research laboratory in Amsterdam. Polman received his master's degree in physics and his Ph. D. degree in materials science...
14. Jan Zaanen (1957)
Dutch Physicist
Jan Zaanen is Professor of Theoretical Physics at Leiden University The Netherlands. He is best known for his contributions to the understanding of the quantum physics of the electrons in...
15. Jona Oberski (1938)
Dutch Physicist
Jona Oberski is a Dutch writer. A year before his birth his parents escaped from National Socialist German Workers' Party Germany to The Netherlands. But when World War II had...
16. Willem 's Gravesande (1688)
Dutch Physicist
Jacob 's Gravesande was a Dutch lawyer and natural philosopher chiefly remembered for developing experimental demonstrations of the laws of classical mechanics. As professor of mathematics astronomy and philosophy at...
17. Ad Lagendijk (1947)
Dutch Physicist
Ad Lagendijk is a Dutch physicist working at the FOM-institute AMOLF in Amsterdam and at the University of Amsterdam. He is also a part-time professor at the University of Twente...
18. Herman Verlinde (1962)
Dutch Physicist
Herman Louis Verlinde is a Dutch theoretical physicist and string theorist. He is a professor at Princeton University. He is also the identical twin brother of Erik Verlinde.
