Dutch Pioneers of Science

accepted acquired admiration already Amsterdam University appointment astronomy atom awarded become beri-beri Boerhaave's brilliant chemistry Christiaan Eijkman Christiaan Huygens complete course death Debije Delft Descartes discovered discovery dissertation DUTCH PIONEERS Einstein electrical experimental experiments fame famous father field Frits Zernike Gravesande Gravesande's guilders Heike Kamerlingh Onnes helium Hendrik Antoon Lorentz Herman Boerhaave Hoff Hoff's Holland honour hundred important instruments Jan Swammerdam Johannes Diderik later Law of Refraction lectures Leeuwenhoek Leyden University liquefy maps mathematician mathematics medicine Mercator Mercator's method molecular molecules natural science Netherlands Newton Nobel prize Nobel prize winners observations optical Pekelharing pendulum phenomena Physical Laboratory physician physicist Pieter van Musschenbroek Pieter Zeeman PIONEERS OF SCIENCE Prince Maurice problem professor professorship published result Royal Society scientific scientists Secondary Modern School Simon Stevin Snellius solution string galvanometer succeeds teacher temperature theoretical physics thing treatise Utrecht Waals Willem Einthoven Zernike