Abstract

For more than three centuries the Netherlands has produced world famous physicists - Stevin and Snell, who can be claimed for physics although they were officially mathematicians, Huygens, van Musschenbroek (author of the first physics textbook) and at a later stage such eminent men as the Nobel prizewinners Kamerlingh-Onnes, Lorentz, Zeeman, van der Waals and Zernike (1953). There was van Leeuwenhoek the microscopist who never attended a university.

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