Famous People with Name Martinus

Martinus Justinus Godefriedus            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martinus Justinus Godefriedus: is a Nobel Prize winning Dutch theoretical physicist.

Martinus Rokes Bras            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martinus Rokes Bras: is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in seventh position with the Dutch Men's Water Polo Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

Martinus ("Mart") Jan Smeets            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martinus ("Mart") Jan Smeets: is a Dutch radio and television personality, writer, and columnist.Mart Smeets is a long-time sports presenter and commentator with the Dutch public broadcaster NOS. He is most famous for his reporting of the Tour de France

Martinus Willem Beijerinck            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martinus Willem Beijerinck: was a Dutch microbiologist and botanist. He was born in AmsterdamBeijerinck studied at Leiden University and became a teacher in microbiology at the Agricultural School in Wageningen (now Wageningen University and later at the Polytechnische Hogeschool Delft (Delft Polytechnic, currently Delft University of Technology) (from 1895). He established the Delft School of Microbiology. His studies of agricultural microbiology and industrial microbiology yielded fundamental discoveries in the field of biology. His achievements have been perhaps unfairly overshadowed by those of his contemporaries Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, because unlike them, Beijerinck never studied human disease.

Martinus ("Mart") Rokes Bras            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Martinus ("Mart") Rokes Bras: is a former water polo player from The Netherlands, who finished in seventh position with the Dutch Men's Water Polo Team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Later on Bras became an international water polo referee.

Kent Martinussen            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Kent Martinussen: is a Danish architect and CEO of the Danish Architecture Centre. He was appointed member of the board for the Danish Cultural Canon of Architecture in 2005. Martinussen has been running his own architectural practice, while lecturing and researching at universities and architecture academies both in Denmark and abroad. He has been in charge of producing several independent architectural projects, all exhibited abroad, including the International Architecture Biennale in Venice and architectural triennials in Japan and the Middle East. Kent Martinussen has been awarded the Danish Arts Foundations 3-year work scholarship, has served on several committees and boards and has been the holder of other honorary positions (The Architects’ Association of Denmark, Akademiraadet – the board of The Royal Academy for Fine Arts, The Danish Architecture Institute, the Business Board of Roskilde Charity Society, architectural juries and committees), as well as acting as advisor for a number of Danish municipalities and businesses. He is a member of the board of the Danish Cultural Canon of Architecture. He is also a member of the international jury for the 9th International Architecture Biennale in Venice and chairman of the award committee for one of the world’s most influential architectural awards, The Nykredit Architecture Prize. As CEO of The Danish Architecture Centre, Martinussen and his colleagues received the Golden Lion at the International Venice Biennale of Architecture for Best Pavilion in 2006. He received an honorary award from the American Institute of Architects and the Henning Larsen Honorary Scholarship. Since 2001, Kent Martinussen has held the position as CEO for the Danish national centre of architecture, construction and urban planning, the Danish Architecture Centre, shortened to DAC. His main focus in the field of architecture is its potential to contribute with solutions and answers to the challenges of today’s globalization.