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Aart De Geus
Aart J. de Geus (born June 1954) is a co-founder and executive chair of Synopsys Inc., where he was CEO until January 2024. De Geus graduated with a master's degree in electrical engineering (1978) from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of technology), EPFL, Switzerland followed by a Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University, Texas, United States, in 1985. De Geus was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Science degree from the University of Glasgow in 2022. De Geus is one of the original pioneers of electronic design automation (EDA), the software tools used in the semiconductor industry to design chips. De Geus was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2019 for leadership and technical contributions to logic synthesis for integrated circuits. He is also a fellow of IEEE and a Phil Kaufman Award winner, and he received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal for his leadership in the technology and business development of EDA. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Staartjes
Aart Staartjes (1 March 1938 – 12 January 2020) was a Dutch actor, director, television presenter and documentary maker from Amsterdam. He portrayed Meneer Aart ("Mister Aart") on ''Sesamstraat'', the Dutch co-production of ''Sesame Street''. The character was used in the title of his 2002 biography ("Mister Aart: Life and work of the man who does not want to be named a friend to children"). Staartjes presented the annual arrival of Sinterklaas in the Netherlands. Early life Staartjes was born in Nieuwendam, a neighbourhood of Amsterdam-Noord. He had an older brother, and a younger sister. They lived in a house on the Nieuwendammerdijk. His father, his grandfather, and an uncle of his worked in a carpentry shop located behind the house. Staartjes started his primary education at the age of eight. After that, he went to the mulo in Amsterdam, followed by the Kweekschool, a teachers' college. He dropped out of the Kweekschool in 1958, and went to the theatre school. He g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Jan De Geus
Aart Jan de Geus (born 28 July 1955) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and businessman. He served as Minister of Labor and Social Affairs from 2002 to 2007. Then he worked as Deputy Secretary-General for the OECD. From 2012 to 2019, De Geus was Chairman and CEO of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. From January 2020 to 2023, he was Chairman of the Goldschmeding Foundation for People, Work and Economy. Education De Geus began studying law at the Utrecht University and completed his education at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where the law program had a more social-economic orientation. After receiving his Master of Laws in 1980, he did post-graduate studies in labor law at Radboud University Nijmegen. Career In 1980, de Geus became a lawyer for the industrial trade union of the Christelijk Nationaal Vakverbond (CNV). In subsequent years he rose through the organization, eventually joining the board of directors. In 1988, he joined the board o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Van Der Leeuw
Aart van der Leeuw (; 23 June 1876 – 17 April 1931) was a Dutch writer of prose fiction and poetry. His reputation rests mostly on two novels, ''Ik en mijn speelman'' (1927) and ''De kleine Rudolf'' (1930). Biography Aart van der Leeuw was born in Hof van Delft into a family of notable merchants. He had a strong bond with his mother, whose storytelling was very influential on him; later he read her his stories and poems. His years in elementary school were sad, apparently, and he later wrote about them in ''Kinderland'' (1914). He attended the gymnasium in Delft, but he was a dreamer as a child who suffered in the harsh school environment where he was ridiculed. He had little interest in his studies (except for Dutch and history), and on top of that he had health problems, with his eyes and ears, which would plague him throughout his life. All this contributed to his graduating only at age 22, in 1898. He began publishing prose and poetry in his high school years (in the studen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Van Den IJssel
Aart van den IJssel (17 December 1922 in The Hague – 2 December 1983 in Voorburg) was a Dutch sculptor, painter and draftsman. Van den IJssel is known for his sculptures of animals (especially insects and birds) and horses. His work is in the public space in The Hague, Voorburg and several other places in the Netherlands. Van den IJssel was successively a member of the Pulchri Studio Pulchri Studio (Latin language, Latin:"For the study of beauty") is a Dutch art society, art institution and art studio based in The Hague ('s-Gravenhage), Netherlands. This institute began in 1847 at the home of painter Netherlandse kunstschil .... In his fifties he was a member of the De Nieuwe Ploeg in Voorburg. In 1961 he received the Jacob Marisprijs given to those members of the Pulchri Studio. His last exhibition was in Pulchri in 1982. Coinciding with the opening of this exhibition was a biography of Van den IJssel in the series ''Het Haags Palet'', written by Saskia Gras.Archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn
Aernout or Aart Jansz Druyvesteyn (1577 – 5 August 1627) was a Dutch Golden Age lawyer, painter, and mayor of Haarlem. Biography According to Van Mander in 1604, he was a promising young landscape painter who came from a good family in Haarlem, and thus painted as a hobby, rather than professionally. [Baidu] |
Aart Den Boer
Aart den Boer (30 December 1852 in Nieuw-Lekkerland – 11 May 1941) was a Dutch architect and contractor. Life Den Boer began his career as a carpenter and, through evening classes, became teacher of technical drawings (and later superintendent of construction). He was also an assistant to C. Smit, director of the shipping company Reederij op de Lek, which ran paddleboat services on the river Lek (river), Lek to Rotterdam. He designed the steam oil mill "De Toekomst" ("The Future" in Dutch) and the retirement home of L. en N. Smit's foundation that was built in 1885 in Nieuw-Lekkerland which was later used from 1958 to 1996 as town hall. Aart, along with his brother Jan, founded the concrete factory J. & A. den Boer in 1883 in Nieuw-Lekkerland, which was established there until 2019. Aart den Boer was active as councilor and deputy mayor of Nieuw-Lekkerland and chairman of the school board of a Christian school. References 1852 births 1941 deaths 19th-century Dutc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Vierhouten
Aart Vierhouten (born 19 March 1970 in Ermelo, Gelderland) is a Dutch former professional racing cyclist, who last rode for . He competed in the men's individual road race at the 1996 Summer Olympics. More recently, Vierhouten has become a team leader at Team Bahrain Victorious. Major results ;1993 : 1st, Overall, Tour de Liège : 1st, Drielandenomloop : 1st, Internatie Reningelst : 1st, Stage 2, Tour du Hainaut (amateurs) ;1994 : 1st, Stages 1 & 9, Tour de Wallonie ;1996 : 1st, Rund um Rhede : 1st, Stage 7, Teleflex Tour ;1997 : 1st, Stage 2, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt : 8th, Paris–Tours : 15th, World Road Race Championship ;1998 : 1st, Aalsmeer ;1999 : 10th, Paris–Tours ;2000 : 1st, Groningen - Münster ;2003 : 3rd, National Derny Championship ;2004 : 1st, Profronde van Maastricht : 3rd, Stage 20, Giro d'Italia ;2006 : 1st, Stage 1, Ster Elektrotoer : 1st, Profronde van Fryslan : 3rd, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen :3rd, Madison, 2006 Dutch National Track Championships (tog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Brederode
Aart Brederode (22 March 1942 – 8 May 2020) was a Dutch field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol .... References External links * 1942 births 2020 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Field hockey players from The Hague 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Klein
Aart Klein (August 2, 1909 - October 31, 2001) was a Dutch photographer born in Amsterdam. His photos mostly consisted of black and white landscapes with a graphic style, but later transitioned into portraiture. Klein said that his photographs were a white on black, not black on white because “if you don't do anything you get a black image. Things only happen when you open the shutter; then you make a drawing in white”.Warren, Lynn. “Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, 3-Volume Set”. Photo Agencies p 1225. Routledge. November 15, 2005. Career Klein began working at the Netherlands' premier photo press agency, Polygoon in the 1930s, without having any formal training in photography. During his time at Polygoon, he started as an administrative assistant and continued to work there for nine years. During World War II, he held a multitude of other jobs, ranging from press photographer to wedding photographer. Klein was forced to work for the Nazis during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Van Antum
Aert Anthoniszoon (abbreviated Anthonisz.) or Anthonissen, also known as Aart or Aert van Antum (born ; buried 7 September 1620) was a Dutch marine painter. Life and career Aert Anthoniszoon was born at Antwerp. His parents moved the family to Amsterdam in 1591. He was possibly a pupil of Hendrick Cornelisz Vroom. In 1603, when he married Baycken Coutermans from Mechelen he signed a document in Amsterdam stating that he was 23 years old and had lived there for 12 years. He gave her a power of attorney to settle an inheritance in Mechelen in 1614. He was buried in the Zuiderkerk of Amsterdam.. Until 1973 Anthoniszoon was known as Aart or Aert van Antum, as his signatures on early paintings were interpreted as "Aert anAntum". Later research showed his signature to be "AERT ANT .., with the letters of his surname included with varying degrees of completion. One reason so little is known of him is that his life and work were overlooked or omitted by early 17th- and 18th-century pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aart Koopmans
Aart Koopmans (12 October 1946 – 15 January 2007) was a Dutch business man, president of the Dutch winter speed skating marathon organisation and founder of the Alternative Elfstedentocht. His father, Bram Koopmans was the organiser for the Amstel Gold Race in road bicycle racing for many years. Koopmans, born in Amsterdam, organised his first Alternative Elfstedentocht in 1975 in Finland due to the winters in the Netherlands being too warm to skate 200 km in open air on ice. In later years, the Alternative Elfstedentochten were organised in various countries like Poland, Czech Republic, Canada, Norway, Sweden and Japan. In 2007 the first Alternative Elfstedentocht in Mongolia will be held. The Austrian editions became the most popular through the years as thousands of Dutch people travel to the Weissensee each year to compete each other in several speed skating marathons in various distances, with the 200 km Open Dutch National Championships being the main and most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
