List of Dutch inventors and discoverers
The List of Dutch Inventors and Discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from the Netherlands in alphabetical order by family name.
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B.
- Willem Barents : explored the Northeast Passage in the Barents Sea named after him from 1594–1596
- Martinus Willem Beijerinck : pioneer of virology
- Wilhelm van Berkel : Berkel ham slicer
- Daniel Bernoulli : Bernoulli Effect
- Adriaen Block : Sailors
- Christoph Buys Ballot : Baric Wind Law
C.
- Hendrik Casimir : Casimir Effect
- Cornelis Corneliszoon : sawmill
- Dirk Coster : co-discoverer of the hafnium
- Laurens Janszoon Coster : Book printing around 1423 (uncertain)
- Pieter Gabryelss Croon : Gierseilfähre (with Hendrick Heuck ) 17th century
D.
- Peter Debye : (Nobel Prize), Quantum Physics : Debye theory of the specific heat capacity of matter at low temperatures .; in electrochemistry ion activities, Debye radius ; in X-ray structure analysis Debye-Scherrer method , Debye-Waller factor ; in the chemistry of electrolytic solutions Debye-Hückel theory ; Debye function in microwave spectroscopy of liquids
- Hub van Doorne : Variomatic gearbox 1958
- Cornelis Drebbel : Submarine 1620
- Eugène Dubois : Java man
E.
- Christiaan Eijkman : (Nobel Prize 1929)
- Willem Einthoven : (Nobel Prize 1924) Electrocardiogram (EKG), 1903
F.
G
- Andre Geim : (Nobel Prize 2010)
- Reinier de Graaf : Description of female ejaculation
H
- Jaap haarsen : co-inventor of Bluetooth
- Vic Hayes : Wi-Fi
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff : (Nobel Prize), researched the chirality of the carbon atom, the change in physical properties as a function of the number of particles in a solution, the kinetics of chemical reactions and their temperature dependence.
- Hendrick Heuck : Gierseilfähre (next to Pieter Gabryelss Croon) 1657
- Jan van der Heyden : Fire hose
- Gerardus' t Hooft (Nobel Prize 1999)
- Coenraad Johannes van Houten De-oiling the cocoa beans 1828
- Christiaan Huygens : pendulum clock with verge escapement 1656/57, pocket watches with spiral springs and spring balance 1675
I.
- Jan Ingenhousz : pioneer of photosynthesis research
J
- Zacharias Janssen : microscope 1590 (controversial, possibly with Hans Janssen)
- Willem Jansz : is considered the discoverer of Australia
K
- Theophilus Van Kannel : revolving door 1888
- Petrus Jacobus Kipp : Kippscher apparatus
- Hugo Alexander Koch : Rotor cipher machine 1919
- Willem Johan Kolff : artificial kidney ( hemodialysis machine) and other artificial organs
- Gerard Peter Kuiper : Prediction of the Kuiper Belt ; Moons Nereid and Miranda
L.
- Jacob Le Maire : circled and named Cape Horn in 1616 with Willem Cornelisz Schouten and discovered the Tonga Islands
- Hans Lipperhey : dioptric telescope ( Galilei telescope ) 1608
- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek : microscope
- Hendrik Antoon Lorentz : (Nobel Prize 1902)
M.
- Jan Mayen : Sailor
- Simon van der Meer : Physicist (Nobel Prize) - Contributions to the discovery of the field particles W and Z, mediator of weak interaction
- Pieter van Musschenbroek : Leiden bottle 1746 (next to Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist), pyrometer
N
- Carl Lucas Norden : Engineer, bomb drop target
O
- Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (Nobel Prize 1913), helium liquefaction 1908
- Jan Oort : Dark Matter ; Localization of the center of the Milky Way; Oort cloud
- Lou Ottens : Compact Cassette and Compact Disc
R.
- Jakob Roggeveen : Discoverer of Easter Island and Samoas
- Guido van Rossum : Python programming language
- Erasmus of Rotterdam , polymath
S.
- Maarten Schmidt : Quasar 1964
- Kees A. Schouhamer Immink : Compact Disc 1980, DVD 1995, Blu-ray Disc 2002 (each co-inventor)
- Willem Schouten : Navigator
- Iwan Serrurier (20th century), Netherlands / USA - Moviola film cutting machine 1924
- Jan Sloot : SDCS coding technology ( data compression ) 1995 (controversial)
- Willebrord van Roijen Snell : Snellius' law of refraction
- Simon Stevin : decimal numbers 1586, sailing car 1600
- Jan Swammerdam : Red blood cells
- Franciscus Sylvius : Fissura Sylvii ; Aquaeductus mesencephali
T
- Abel Tasman : discovered Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand in 1642 and the Tonga and Fiji Islands in 1643
- Bernard Tellegen : Pentode 1926, Gyrator 1948
- Jan Tinbergen : (Nobel Prize 1969)
V
- Martinus JG Veltman (Nobel Prize 1999)
- Hugo de Vries : biologist
W.
- Johannes Diderik van der Waals : (Nobel Prize 1910) Van der Waals forces
- Sebald de Weert : Falkland Islands
- Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel : among other things, he invented a forerunner of the metronome and the componentium , an automaton modeled on the panharmonic
- Adriaan van Wijngaarden : Van Wijngaarden grammar
Z
- Pieter Zeeman : (Nobel Prize 1902), Zeeman Effect
- Frits Zernike : (Nobel Prize 1953), phase contrast microscopy
Individual evidence
- ↑ firstpost.com: Bluetooth inventor - Dr. Jaap haarsen nominated for the European Inventor Award 2012 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
