# Every Dutch Nobel laureate

From Jacobus van 't Hoff, winner of the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901, through Lorentz, Kamerlingh Onnes and the Tinbergen brothers to Ben Feringa and economist Guido Imbens: every Dutch winner of a Nobel Prize or the economics prize in memory of Alfred Nobel, in chronological order.

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- Sep 22, 2023 · noscope_denhaag
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## Top 22

1. **Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff** (8 · ▲8 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1901. Laws of chemical equilibrium and osmotic pressure; the very first Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
2. **Johannes Diderik van der Waals** (7 · ▲8 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1910. The equation of state for gases and liquids.
3. **Hendrik Antoon Lorentz** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1902. With Pieter Zeeman, for explaining the Zeeman effect.
4. **Heike Kamerlingh Onnes** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1913. Low-temperature research that led to liquid helium.
5. **Tobias Asser** (5 · ▲6 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Peace 1911. A driving force behind the Hague Peace Conferences.
6. **Pieter Zeeman** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1902. Discoverer of the Zeeman effect, shared with Lorentz.
7. **Willem Einthoven** (4 · ▲5 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1924. The mechanism of the electrocardiogram.
8. **Frits Zernike** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1953. Inventor of the phase-contrast microscope.
9. **Niko Tinbergen** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1973. Research on animal behaviour; brother of Jan Tinbergen.
10. **Tjalling Koopmans** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1975. Optimal allocation of resources and linear programming.
11. **Gerard 't Hooft** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1999. With Martinus Veltman, for the renormalisation of quantum field theory.
12. **Paul Crutzen** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1995. Atmospheric chemistry and the depletion of the ozone layer.
13. **Martinus Veltman** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1999. Shared with his former doctoral student Gerard 't Hooft.
14. **Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Peace 1954. Received the prize as the first UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
15. **Simon van der Meer** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1984. Contribution to the discovery of the W and Z particles at CERN.
16. **Jan Tinbergen** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 1969. The very first economics prize, as a founder of econometrics.
17. **Andre Geim** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 2010. Experiments with graphene; holds Dutch as well as British nationality.
18. **Peter Debye** (1 · ▲4 ▼3) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936. Dipole moments and X-ray diffraction.
19. **Christiaan Eijkman** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1929. Research that led to the discovery of vitamins.
20. **Ben Feringa** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016. The design and synthesis of molecular machines.
21. **Nico Bloembergen** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Nobel Prize in Physics 1981. Laser spectroscopy.
22. **Guido Imbens** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2021. Methods for analysing causal relationships.

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