Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands, and one of the largest in Europe. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 26,787 students in 2004, and employed 8,224 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors. In 2004, 358 Ph.D.-diplomas were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published. The 2004 budget of the university was 653 million euro.

Notable alumni

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

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Alumn - Nobel Prize

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• C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
• Clarence Barlow (composer)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• James Boswell (author, lawyer)
• Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
• Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
• Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Price laureate)
• Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
• Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
• Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
• Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist)
• Heiko Oberman (historian)
• Perizonius (scholar)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
• Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
• Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
• Jan Terlouw (politician)
• J. H. van 't Hoff (Chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Hugh Williamson (politician)
• J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.