Utrecht University

Utrecht University (Dutch Universiteit Utrecht) is situated in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest and largest universities in the Netherlands.

Established March 26, 1636, Universiteit Utrecht had an enrollment of 23,716 students in 2002, and employed 7,863 faculty and staff.

Two large faculties, Arts and Law, are located in the inner city of Utrecht, but the majority of the buildings is in De Uithof, a sort of campus area on the outskirts of the city of Utrecht.

Notable Alumni

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

• C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
• Clarence Barlow (composer)
• Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
• Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
• Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
• Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
• Perizonius (scholar)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
• Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
• J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist)
• 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)

External links

• Utrecht University WWW page