Netherlands Science & Technology People

Markus Hendrik Overmars (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmɑrk ˈɦɛn.drɪk ˈoː.vər.ˌmɑrs], born 29 September 1958 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application Game Maker. Game Maker lets people create computer games...

Timothy Pont (c. 1565–1614) was a Scottish topographer, the first to produce a detailed map of Scotland. Pont's maps are among the earliest surviving to show a European country in minute detail, from an actual survey.

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the...

Michiel (pronounced mī'kəl) Steven Daniel Horn (born September 3, 1939, Baarn, Netherlands) is a Canadian professor and historian.

Wouter Jacobus Hanegraaff (born 1961) is full professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is also President of the European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism (ESSWE).

Stephen C. Levinson is director of the Language and Cognition group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received a BA in Archaeology and Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and received a PhD...