Leiden, Netherlands

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Leiden, Netherlands

LOCATION

Official Website:
http://www.leiden.nl/

Population:
118,423 (2005)

SCHOOLS

School Founded

University of Leiden 1575

BIRTHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Jan Josephs van Goyen Painter 13-Jan-1596 27-Apr-1656 Landscape painter at The Hague

Willem Johan Kolff Scientist 14-Feb-1911 11-Feb-2009 Artificial kidney, artificial heart

Lucas van Leyden Engraver 1489 8-Aug-1533 Dutch Renaissance engraver, painter

Rembrandt Painter 15-Jul-1606 4-Oct-1669 Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp

Jan Steen Painter 1626 3-Feb-1679 Dutch subject painter

Johannes Diderik van der Waals Physicist 23-Nov-1837 9-Mar-1923 Investigated states of matter

DEATHS

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Willem de Sitter Astronomer 6-May-1872 19-Nov-1934 Expanding space

Willem Einthoven Scientist 21-May-1860 28-Sep-1927 Invented the electrocardiograph

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Physicist 21-Sep-1853 21-Feb-1926 Liquefied helium and discovered superconductivity

Lucas van Leyden Engraver 1489 8-Aug-1533 Dutch Renaissance engraver, painter

Jan Hendrik Oort Astronomer 28-Apr-1900 5-Nov-1992 Theory of the origin of comets

Perizonius Scholar 26-Oct-1651 6-Apr-1715 Animadversiones Historicae

Joseph Scaliger Scholar 5-Aug-1540 21-Jan-1609 De emendatione temporum

Jan Steen Painter 1626 3-Feb-1679 Dutch subject painter

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