• The Stevin Prize (Dutch: Stevinpremie) is one of the highest scientific awards in the Netherlands, established to recognize and reward outstanding researchers...
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    Simon Stevin (Dutch: [ˈsimɔn steːˈvɪn]; 1548–1620), sometimes called Stevinus, was a Flemish mathematician, scientist and music theorist. He made various...
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  • earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2020 for his biography of Susan Sontag, titled Sontag:...
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  • Johann Bernoulli, Aletta Jacobs, four Nobel Prize winners, nine Spinoza Prize winners, one Stevin Prize winner, various members of the Dutch royal family...
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  • faculty, including 12 Nobel Prize, 1 Pulitzer Prize, 2 Wolf Prize, 2 National Medal of Science, 21 Spinoza Prize and 3 Stevin Prize laureates. The university...
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    its alumni Radboud University counts 14 Spinoza Prize laureates, 2 Stevin Prize laureates, 1 Nobel Prize laureate, Sir Konstantin Novoselov, and 5 prime-ministers...
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    Yazdanbakhsh, electrochemist Mark Koper and astrophysicist Ignas Snellen. The Stevin Prize laureates who have achieved exceptional success in knowledge exchange...
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    nl, retrieved 2020-02-09 Stevin Prize, The Dutch Research Council, nwo.nl, retrieved 2020-02-09 "Makdougall Brisbane Prize". Royal Society of Scotland...
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    was awarded the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Stevin Prize. She serves on the scientific advisory group of the World Health Organization...
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    Nijkamp and Jos Engelen. NWO is also known for the annual Spinoza and Stevin Prizes. The council was established in 1950 as Nederlandse Organisatie voor...
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    their local ecosystems. She was awarded the 2020 Dutch Research Council Stevin Prize. Steg was born in Ooststellingwerf.[citation needed] She studied adult...
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  • contributions to geometry and mathematics, he was awarded the second Simon Stevin Prize for Geometry. In 2017, he received the "Life-long achievement award of...
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    Psychology. Lead author of the IPCC special report in 2017 and awarded the Stevin Prize in 2020. David Canter, Emeritus Professor at The University of Liverpool...
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    2016: UU Publiprijs, Prize for best presentation and public education in the media 2017: Language State Master. 2018: Stevin Prize (2.5 million euros)...
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    otherwise eventually reach a uniform terminal velocity. In 1586, Simon Stevin (commonly known as Stevinus) and Jan Cornets de Groot dropped lead balls...
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  • was honored by NASA and awarded the Dutch "van der Bilt" and "Simon Stevin" prizes. JPL · 9490 9491 Thooft 1205 T-1 Gerardus 't Hooft, Dutch 1999 Nobel...
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    anatomist Andreas Vesalius, herbalist Rembert Dodoens and mathematician Simon Stevin among the most influential scientists. Chemist Ernest Solvay and engineer...
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  • the work of Simon Stevin and to the promotion of the Dutch language and culture in the internationalized society. Three-annual prize for exact and natural...
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    Based on the work of Flemish mathematician and military engineer Simon Stevin, Governor-General Jacques Specx: 463  designed a moat and city wall; extensions...
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    speed. With the 1586 Delft tower experiment, the Flemish physicist Simon Stevin observed that two cannonballs of differing sizes and weights fell at the...
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    undertook a formal study of military engineering, as established by Simon Stevin. Descartes, therefore, received much encouragement in Breda to advance his...
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    Enkele aspecten van de theorie der axiomatische projectieve vlakken, Simon Stevin, Supplement, Vol. 55, 1981 (For a complete list of papers see Homepage in...
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  • and acceleration 1514 – Nicolaus Copernicus: Heliocentrism 1586 – Simon Stevin: Delft tower experiment 1608 – Earliest known telescopes 1609, 1619 – Kepler:...
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    Giordano Bruno and Galileo Galilei in Italy; Diego Zuniga in Spain; Simon Stevin in the Low Countries; and in Germany, the largest group—Georg Joachim Rheticus...
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    revert power series. Newton's work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals. In 1666, Newton observed that the spectrum of colours exiting...
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    the tides were caused by the general circulation of the heavens. Simon Stevin, in his 1608 De spiegheling der Ebbenvloet (The theory of ebb and flood)...
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  • (1543–1610) François d'Aguilon, mathematician and physicist (1546–1617) Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer (c. 1548 – 1620) Federigo Giambelli, Italian...
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    ISBN 978-90-04-06505-5. Caldwell et al. 2012, pp. 7–13. See in particular the entries for Stevin, Brancker, Wallis, and Prestet. Caldwell et al. 2012, pp. 6-7. Caldwell...
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    Institution". www.rigb.org. Retrieved 22 March 2023. Kemp, Martin (1986). "Simon Stevin and Pieter Saenredam: A Study of Mathematics and Vision in Dutch Science...
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    roots of a function. His work on infinite series was inspired by Simon Stevin's decimals. Most importantly, Newton showed that the motions of objects on...
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