The then recognized oldest person in the world, Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper, lived in Hoogeveen until her death in August 2005.
Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper (1890 – 2005) The oldest person ever to have lived in the Netherlands, aged 115 at the time of her death.
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One of Schipper's most notable subjects was Sir Isaac Brock whom he painted a pastel portrait of whilst Brock was stationed in Upper Canada.
In 2007, Schipper was named to the Accounting Hall of Fame, which has only inducted 81 persons since it was initiated.
Kristofer Marinus Schipper (born 1934, Järnskog, Eda Municipality), is a Dutch sinologist.
Schipper gained prominence early in his career for a paper published in Science in 1976 showing how Sweden, an affluent country, had an energy intensity far lower than that of the U.S. "This became a very famous paper," said Mark Levine, who was Schipper’s supervisor for most his career at Berkeley Lab and now leads Berkeley Lab’s China Energy Group.
The journal's executive editors include Mark Dibben, R. Edward Freeman, Paul Griseri, and Frits Schipper.