Famous People with Name Adriaan

Adriaan Blaauw            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Blaauw: is a Dutch astronomer.Blaauw studied in Leiden and Groningen. In the 1950s he worked a few years at the Yerkes Observatory. In 1957 he became director of the "Kapteyn Astronomical Institute" in Groningen. Blaauw was closely involved in the founding of the European Southern Observatory, and was its general director from 1970 to 1975. He stayed at Leiden until his retirement in 1981, during which he was president of the International Astronomical Union and led the scientific programme of the astronometric satellite Hipparcos. His research has involved star formation, the motions of star clusters and stellar associations, and distance scale. His main contributions are the explanation of the origin of stars that move with high velocity in our galaxy and the description of star formation in associations.

Adriaan Koonings            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Koonings: was a Dutch footballer who was active as a striker.Koonings was born in Rotterdam and played his whole career at Feijenoord. He won one cap for the Netherlands. After his career he managed Feijenoord from 1946-1950, and he died in Rotterdam.

Adriaan "Adje" Paulen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan "Adje" Paulen: was a Dutch athlete who competed from 1917 to 1931. During World War II, he was part of the Dutch resistance in the Netherlands. Following World War II, Paulen became a sports official, becoming president of the International Amateur Athletic Federation (IAAF — International Association of Athletics Federations since 2001), serving fom 1976 to 1981.Competing in three Summer Olympics, Paulen earned his best finish of seventh in the 800 m event at Antwerp in 1920.[1][2] In 1925, he became first of over forty world record breakers (up to his 1985 death) in athletics at Bislett stadion in Oslo, setting a record in 500 m, then an official distance[3] Besides competing at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, Paulen was also a member of the Organizing Committee.[

Adriaan Van Maanen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Van Maanen: was a Dutch-American astronomer.Van Maanen, born into a well-to-do family in Friesland, studied astronomy at the University of Utrecht (earning his Ph.D. in 1911) and worked briefly at the University of Groningen. In 1911, he came to the United States to work as a volunteer in an unpaid capacity at Yerkes Observatory. Within a year he got a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory, where he remained active until his death in 1946.He is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae. Being of the belief that nebulae were local, stellar and gaseous systems that existed in our galaxy, his measurements came to be at odds with Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda Nebula and other spiral nebulae were extragalactic objects. The speed at which he calculated the nebulae to rotate would have had the Cepheid stars

Adriaan Kortlandt            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Adriaan Kortlandt: a Dutch ethologist.He is famous for his work on displacement activities (Dutch: overspronggedraging) [1] and the hierarchy of instincts. Already in the thirties he realised the common characteristics between instincts in humans and other animals. In one of his experiments in Western Africa he exposed a stuffed panther with an electronic moving head to chimpanzees, who attacked it with sticks, thus illustrating to which extent early man could have kept wild animals at bay even before spears and other weapons were invented.

David Adriaan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

David Adriaan: was a Dutch chemist

Pieter Cornelis Adriaan            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Pieter Cornelis Adriaan: is a former Dutch politician , and Queen's Commissioner in Utrecht. Descendant of the famous sex Dordrecht rains Beelaerts van Blokland , he followed a career mayor and was an expert in the field of planning , Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the first cabinet Van Agt (1977-1981). During his ministry was treated Urbanisation Note that the impetus behind the development of growth centers and Alphen aan den Rijn , Lelystad and Horn . Beelaerts van Blokland for his building policy was much criticism from political opponents as Marcel van Dam and Hans Kombrink . Descendant of the famous sex Dordrecht rains Beelaerts van Blokland , he followed a career mayor and was an expert in the field of planning , Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in the first cabinet Van Agt (1977-1981). During his ministry was treated Urbanisation Note that the impetus behind the development of growth centers and Alphen aan den Rijn , Lelystad and Horn . Beelaerts van Blokland for his building policy was much criticism from political opponents as Marcel van Dam and Hans Kombrink .

Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan, Count: was a Dutch politician. Van Zuylen van Nijevelt served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands (Voorzitter van de Ministerraad) from 1866 to 1868. He also served as minister of foreign affairs from 1860 to 1861 and again from 1866 tot 1868.

Jacobson ("Co") Adriaanse            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Jacobson ("Co") Adriaanse: is a Dutch football manager and former football player from the Netherlands.He started his managing career with Zilvermeeuwen in 1979, and after four years he joined AZ for the first time as scout and youth trainer.

Hans P.M. Adriaansens            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Hans P.M. Adriaansens: is dean of the Roosevelt Academy, a small liberal arts college in Middelburg, the Netherlands.Next to his demanding job as dean of the Roosevelt Academy, Professor Adriaansens currently serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Antonius-Mesos Group and of two hospitals in the Utrecht region. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of both the Hogeschool van Utrecht and the Hogeschool Zeeland. He furthermore participates in various government committees in the field of higher education and social development.