University of Amsterdam
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The University of Amsterdam (Template:Lang-nl) is a comprehensive research university located in the heart of the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Notable professors
- Pieter Zeeman (1868–1943), Nobel Prize for Physics in 1902
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837–1923), Nobel Prize for Physics in 1910
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911), Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901
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Notable alumni
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Politics
- Wubbo de Boer, president of OHIM
- Frits Bolkestein, former Minister of Defence and former European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services
- Els Borst, former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport
- Jet Bussemaker, state secretary of Health, Welfare and Sport
- Jacqueline Cramer, Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
- Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Foreign Trade within the Economic Affairs
- Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Minister of Justice
- Guusje ter Horst, Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations
- Ad Melkert, former Minister of Social Affairs and Employment and currently deputy director of UNDP
- Ronald Plasterk, Minister of Education, Culture and Science
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Science
- Anton Pannekoek, Dutch communist and astrophysicist
- Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, mathematician
- Frits Zernike, Nobel Prize in Physics 1953
- Christiaan Eijkman, Nobel Prize in Medicine 1929
- M.A. Mendes de Leon, gynaecologist
- Hendrik de Wit, Dutch botanist
- Alec Jeffreys - Inventor of DNA fingerprinting
- Erik Verlinde - notable string theorist.
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Arts
- Menno ter Braak, writer
- Willem Frederik Hermans, writer
- J. Slauerhoff, writer
- Simon Vestdijk, writer
- Boudewijn Sirks, Roman law specialist
- Ien Ang, cultural analyst
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Sports
- Max Euwe, World Chess Champion 1935–1937
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