Utrecht University - Notable Alumni and Faculty

Notable Alumni and Faculty

Utrecht University counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates:

• Wim Aantjes (politician)
• Clarence Barlow (composer)
• Lulzim Basha (Mayor of Tirana, Albania)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Arend Jan Boekestijn (historian, politician)
• Els Borst (former Dutch minister of Health)
• Henk J. M. Bos (historian of mathematics)
• James Boswell (author, lawyer)
• Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
• C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
• Michael Clyne (linguist)
• David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, (author, lawyer)
• Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• René Descartes (philosopher, mathematician)
• Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
• Louis Grondijs (Byzantologist, war correspondent)
• Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
• Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Arie A. Kruithof, developed the Kruithof curve, describing the influence of colour temperature on visual perception
• Jan van Leeuwen (Computer Scientist)
• Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
• Jack van Lint (mathematician)
• Renate Loll (physicist)
• Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist and physiologist)
• Maung Maung, (7th President of Burma)
• Erik Meijer (computer scientist)
• Marcel Minnaert (astronomer)
• Heiko Oberman (historian)
• Mark Overmars (computer scientist)
• Abraham Pais (physicist, science historian)
• Perizonius (scholar)
• Maarten van Rossem (historian)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
• Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
• Boudewijn Sirks (Roman law specialist)
• J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929–1930.
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
• Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
• Jan Terlouw (politician, novelist)
• Gerard Verschuuren from the former Institute of Human Biology
• Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
• Hugh Williamson (politician)