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Nicolaas Cannius
Nicolaas is the Dutch equivalent of the masculine given name Nicholas. Before the 19th century the name was also written Nicolaes, while Nikolaas is an uncommon variant spelling. Most people with the name use a short form in daily life, like ''Claas'', ''Claes'', '' Klaas'', ''Nico'', and '' Niek''. Notable people with the name Nicolaas or Nikolaas include: Academics *Nicolaas Bidloo (1673–1735), Dutch personal physician to Tsar Peter the Great *Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920–2017), Dutch-American physicist and Nobel laureate * Nicolaas Bom (born 1937), Dutch electrical engineer * Nicolaas H. J. van den Boogaard (1938–1982), Dutch medievalist scholar *Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918–2012), Dutch mathematician *Nicolaas Laurens Burman (1734–1793), Dutch botanist *Nicolaas Duneas (born c. 1972), South African biotech entrepreneur * Nicolaas Everaerts (1461–1532), Dutch jurist *Nicolaas Hartsoeker (1656–1725), Dutch mathematician, physicist, and microscopist *Nicolaas Hein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dutch Language
Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the List of languages by total number of speakers, third most spoken Germanic language. In Europe, Dutch is the native language of most of the population of the Netherlands and Flanders (which includes 60% of the population of Belgium). "1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." (page 153). Dutch was one of the official languages of South Africa until 1925, when it was replaced by Afrikaans, a separate but partially Mutual intelligibility, mutually intelligible daughter language of Dutch. Afrikaans, depending on the definition used, may be considered a sister language, spoken, to some degree, by at least 16 million people, mainly in South Africa and Namibia, and evolving from Cape Dutch dialects. In South America, Dutch is the native l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Heinsius The Younger
Nicolaas Heinsius the Younger (1656, in The Hague – buried 12 January 1718, in Culemborg) was a Dutch physician and writer. Life Heinsius was an illegitimate son of Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder and his long term Swedish-born partner, Margaretha Wullen. With little help of his father, he became a medical doctor at the age of 20, but had to flee the country in 1677 after he and several drunk friends had committed manslaughter in the streets of The Hague. Traveling as a physician through France, Italy and Germany, he arrived in Rome in 1679, where he became personal physician of Christina of Sweden until about 1687. Later he became personal physician of the elector of Brandenburg in Kleve. In 1695 he returned to the Netherlands, settling in Culemborg, at the time a free city and exempt from the Dutch ban imposed on him. That same year he published ''Den vermakelyken avanturier, ofte De Wispelturige, en niet min Wonderlyke Levens-Loop van Mirandor'' (''The Jolly Adventurer or the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Jan Van Strien
Nicolaas Jan van Strien (1 April 1946 – 7 February 2008), or just Nico van Strien, was a zoologist and conservationist of Dutch ancestry. He became notable for his conservation projects on the Sumatran Rhinoceros and the Javan Rhinoceros. Nico van Strien was born in Etterbeek, Belgium on 1 April 1946. He obtained a Master of Science degree at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1971. In 1985 he received a Ph.D. degree in Agricultural science from Wageningen University. Dr. van Strien was the South-East Asian programme officer for the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) and the co-chairman of the IUCN / SSC Asian Rhino Specialist Group from 1998 to 2008. He took part in Rhinoceros conservation projects in India, Sumatra and Java for 30 years. His field research on the Sumatran Rhinoceros in Gunung Leuser National Park was important for conservation measurements on this species. He further co-ordinated anti-poaching activities in the key Asian rhinoceros reserves, and was inv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Stenius
Nicolaes van der Steen, or Nicolaas Stenius (1605 – 1670), was a Dutch theologian, best known today for his portrait by Frans Hals. Biography He was born in Haarlem, and according to the NNBW he became canon priest of the Old Catholic Haarlem chapter or ''kapittel''. He moved to Akersloot in 1631.Nicolaas Stenius in the , part 9, by P.J. Blok and P.C. Molhuysen In 1633 he built a "barn church" there, that was tor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke
Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke (born 22 January 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch historian of science and biographer, who began his academic career as a marine geologist.''Who is Who in the World 2011'' - 28th edition. He studied biology and geology at the university of Groningen and geology and the history of science at Princeton and Oxford. Early in his studies, Rupke was a Christian and proponent of Flood geology,Rupke, N.A. 1970. Prolegomena to a study of cataclysmal sedimentation. In Lammerts, W.E. (editor), ''Why Not Creation?'' pp. 141–179. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI. but later came to reject this position. When in 1977 he was elected to a Wolfson College, Oxford research position in the history of science, Rupke made this subject his full-time occupation. A series of similar international research posts followed, until in 1993 he took up a professorship at Göttingen University to teach the history of science and medicine."Die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften als Lebensg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Roozen
Nicolaas Josephus Maria "Nico" Roozen (born 22 April 1953 in Heemskerk) in Solidaridad 23:3, November 2007, p. 5. is a Dutch economist who, in collaboration with Frans van der Hoff and ecumenical development agency Solidaridad (organization), Solidaridad, launched Stichting Max Havelaar, Max Havelaar, the first Fairtrade certification initiative in 1988. Roozen played a key role in convincing several major Dutch retailers to offer Fairtrade certification, Fairtrade goods, which later led to the commercial success of Fairtrade certification. On October 25, 2007, Nico Roozen was invested as an Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau for his years of dedication to Fairtrade. In 1996, Roozen launched AgroFair, the first Fairtrade fruit company in Europe. Until 2019, Nico Roozen was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus
Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus or N.W. Posthumus (26 February 1880 in Amsterdam – 18 April 1960 in Bussum) was a Dutch economic historian, political scientist, and professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Posthumus was one of the founders of both the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. Biography Posthumus was born as the son of geography teacher Nicolaas Wilhelmus Posthumus and Huibertje IJzerman. He graduated high school and began studying at the University of Amsterdam in 1898. From March to October 1901, he was editor of the satirical student magazine Propria Cures. In 1908 he graduated with a Doctorate of Public Sciences, writing his dissertation on the "History of the Leidsche sheet industry". After graduation, Posthumus studied a few years of economics and trade law at the municipal trade school in Amsterdam. In 1913, he became a professor of economic history at the N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico M
Christa Päffgen (; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988), known by her stage name Nico, was a German singer, songwriter, actress, and model. Nico had roles in several films, including Federico Fellini's ''La Dolce Vita'' (1960) and Andy Warhol's ''Chelsea Girls'' (1966). At the insistence of Warhol, she sang lead on three songs of the Velvet Underground's debut album ''The Velvet Underground & Nico'' (1967). At the same time, she started a solo career and released '' Chelsea Girl'' (1967). Her friend Jim Morrison suggested that she start writing her own material. She then composed songs on a harmonium, not traditionally a rock instrument. John Cale of the Velvet Underground became her musical arranger and produced ''The Marble Index'' (1968), ''Desertshore'' (1970), '' The End...'' (1974) and other subsequent albums. In the 1980s, Nico toured extensively in Europe, United States, Australia and Japan. After a concert in Berlin in June 1988, she went on holiday in Ibiza, where she di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Nagelkerke
Nicolaas Jan Dirk "Nico" Nagelkerke (born 1951) is a retired Dutch biostatistician and epidemiologist. He was a professor of biostatistics at the United Arab Emirates University and previously taught at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether .... In 1991, he defined the Nagelkerke R-squared, an equation adjusting the Cox and Snell R-squared value to be comparable to the traditional coefficient of determination. References Living people 1951 births Dutch statisticians Dutch epidemiologists Biostatisticians Leiden University alumni University of Amsterdam alumni Academic staff of Leiden University Academic staff of United Arab Emirates University {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaus Mulerius
Nicolaus Mulerius (25 December 1564, Bruges – 5 September 1630, Groningen) was a professor of medicine and mathematics at the University of Groningen. Education and career Mulerius was born Nicolaas Des Muliers, son of Pierre Des Muliers and Claudia Le Vettre. He grew up in Bruges, where he was taught by Jacobus Cruquius, among others. Mulerius first studied Philology, Philosophy and Theology and from 1582 he also studied Medicine and Mathematics at the University of Leiden, where Lipsius, Vulcanius, Snellius and Heurnius were teachers. In 1589, he married ''Christina Six'' and set up practice for 13 years in Harlingen. In 1603, he became the leading physician in Groningen, in 1608 he took the position of school master of the Leeuwarden gymnasium. From 1614 he was professor of medicine and mathematics at the Groningen University. From 1619 – 1621 and 1626 – 1630, he was in charge of the library of the University of Groningen. Publications In 1616, Nicolaus Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Meerburgh
Nicolaas Meerburgh (1734 in Leiden – 20 March 1814 in Leiden) was a Netherlands gardener, botanist and botanical illustrator. His date of birth is unknown, but he was baptized on February 3, 1734. He was possibly trained by the gardener Adriaan Steckhoven. In 1752 he became a subservient in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, where he remained for the rest of his life. He worked under three directors: Adriaan van Royen, David van Royen and Sebald Justinus Brugmans. In 1774, he became the curator there, and he remained there until his death in 1814. In 1775 he published the first volume of his "Portraits of Rare Plants" (), which was followed by four other volumes, of which in 1780 the latter was published. The volumes contain 50 engravings, which he made of plants from the Hortus botanicus Leiden and butterflies. In 1789 he published ''Plantae rariores vivis coloribus depictae'', a full Latin version of his earlier work with 55 color plates and four extra pages of text and also publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolaas Kuiper
Nicolaas Hendrik Kuiper (; 28 June 1920 – 12 December 1994) was a Dutch mathematician, known for Kuiper's test and proving Kuiper's theorem. He also contributed to the Nash embedding theorem. Kuiper studied at University of Leiden in 1937-41, and worked as a secondary school teacher of mathematics in Dordrecht in 1942-47. He completed his Ph.D. in differential geometry from the University of Leiden in 1946 under the supervision of Willem van der Woude. In 1947 he came to the United States at the invitation of Oscar Veblen, where he stayed at the Institute for Advanced Study for one year as Veblen's assistant, and the second year as member of the IAS, meeting Shiing-Shen Chern, and he also went to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In February to June 1954, he went for a second time to Ann Arbor where he met Raoul Bott and his student Stephen Smale. In 1950 he was appointed professor of mathematics (and statistics) at the Agricultural University of Wageningen. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
