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unusual facts about university of Leiden



Capacitor

The following year, the Dutch physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek invented a similar capacitor, which was named the Leyden jar, after the University of Leiden where he worked.

Christian, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

Christian and his Hofmeister, Gustav von Moltke, were sent to Leiden, where Christian enthousiastically studied mathematics at the local university.

Cornelis Gijsbert Gerrit Jan van Steenis

The Van Steenis Building of the University of Leiden, the Rubiaceae genus Steenisia, and the street Cornelis van Steenishof in Oegstgeest are named after him.

Friedrich Spanheim

Friedrich Spanheim the elder (January 1, 1600, Amberg – May 14, 1649, Leiden) was a Calvinistic theology professor at the University of Leiden.

George Augustus Eliott, 1st Baron Heathfield

Eliott was educated at the University of Leiden in the Dutch Republic and studied artillery and other military subjects at the école militaire of La Fère in France.

Giles Scott-Smith

Giles Scott-Smith (High Wycombe 1968) is Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg and Ernst van der Beugel Chair in the Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation since World War II at the University of Leiden.

Jan de Doot

The painting is part of the Portrait Collection of the Laboratory of Pathology, which is part of the University of Leiden.

Johann Friedrich Böckelmann

To this day, the university of Leiden administrates a Legatum Böckelmannianum from which one outstanding law student receives an annual stipend.

Joseph S. Freedman

He was a fellow at the University of Leiden from 2003 to 2004 and at the Johannes a Lasko Bibliothek in Emden in 2005.

Petra Huybrechtse

Huybrechtse has degrees in psychology from St. Ignatiuscollege of Purmerend, University of Amsterdam, and University of Leiden (2000).

Prince Rupert's cube

Nieuwland died in 1794 (a year after taking a position as a professor at the University of Leiden) but his solution was published posthumously in 1816 by Nieuwland's mentor, Jean Henri van Swinden.

Rogier Windhorst

He received his Ph.D in astronomy in 1984 from the University of Leiden and did post doctorate work at Mt.Wilson and Las Campanas Observatories.


see also

Eduard Anton Eugène van Meeuwen

Lodewijk Cornelis Josephus Andreas van Meeuwen and scion of the catholic noble family Van Meeuwen (titled as a jonkheer), studied law at the university of Leiden and was a lawyer in 's-Hertogenbosch.

International Society for Justice Research

Early steps towards the establishment of ISJR were taken when the social psychologist Melvin J. Lerner accepted the Cleveringa Chair at the University of Leiden in 1984.

Ronald Stamper

The FRISCO report, WEB edition, (Ed, Eckhard D. Falkenberg, W.H., Paul Lindgreen, Björn E. Nilsson, J.L. Han Oei, Colette Rolland, Ronald Stamper, Frans J M Van Assche, Alexander A. Verrijn-Stuart, Klaus Voss) IFIP, Department of Computer Science, University of Leiden, The Netherlands,