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Boomsma
Boomsma is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arie Boomsma (born 1974), Dutch television presenter * Clifford David Boomsma (1915-2004), Australian botanist * Dorret Boomsma (born 1957), Dutch biological psychologist * Jacobus Boomsma (born 1951), Danish-Dutch evolutionary biologist * Rein Boomsma Reinder ("Rein") Boomsma (19 June 1879 – 27 May 1943) was a Dutch footballer, who played for Sparta and the Dutch national team. Club career Boomsma was born in Schagen, North Holland in 1879, and moved to Rotterdam in 1888. He started to ... (1879-1943), Dutch footballer {{surname Dutch-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorret Boomsma
Dorret I. Boomsma (born 18 November 1957, Huizen, The Netherlands) is a Dutch biological psychologist specializing in genetics and twin studies. Education * Secondary education: Willem de Zwijgerlyceum, Bussum * Bachelor's: Vrije Universiteit in Psychology, cum laude, 1979 * Master's: Vrije Universiteit in Psychophysiology, cum laude, 1983 * Master's: University of Colorado at Boulder in Biological Psychology/Behavior Genetics, 1983 * Ph.D.: Vrije Universiteit (thesis: Quantitative Genetics of Cardiovascular Risk), cum laude, 1992 Career After receiving her Ph.D., Boomsma received an appointment as an assistant professor at the Vrije Universiteit in the Department of Psychonomics. In 1994 she became associate and in 1998 full professor and head of the Department of Biological Psychology. Twin studies Boomsma has built a database of over 75,000 twins and family members in The Netherlands, which has been used for dozens of twin studies. The twins and their families have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rein Boomsma
Reinder ("Rein") Boomsma (19 June 1879 – 27 May 1943) was a Dutch footballer, who played for Sparta and the Dutch national team. Club career Boomsma was born in Schagen, North Holland in 1879, and moved to Rotterdam in 1888. He started to play football on the streets, where he was noticed by Kees van Hasselt. He joined Sparta sometime around 1895. He would remain with the club until his retirement from football in 1907. A year later, in 1908, he was made honorary member of the club. Boomsma scored the only goal for Sparta in the league game against reigning champions RAP of Amsterdam on 29 October 1899. The match was the first charity game in the Netherlands, held to support the Boer cause in the Second Boer War. The match grossed 1,201 guilders and 51.5 cents. International career Boomsma was also part of the first Neherlands national football team, that played against Belgium on 30 April 1905. He also played for the Netherlands in the return match in Rotterdam on 14 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clifford David Boomsma
Clifford David Boomsma (20 October 1915 – 13 January 2004) was an Australian forester, botanist and botanical collector. Boomsma was born in Gawler in South Australia in 1915 and became a ward of the state at three years of age. He completed his early schooling in Mylor in the Adelaide hills He was later sponsored and attended high school at Scotch College as a boarder. Following graduation he attended Adelaide University completing a Bachelor of Science then went on to study Forestry at the Australian Forestry School, Canberra where he graduated in 1939. He worked at Penola forest and then at Mount Burr forests for the Department of Woods and Forests and was eventually posted to the Adelaide head office. He later completed his master's degree on the ecology of Fleurieu Peninsula as well as other regions in South Australia and continued working as a forester for the Woods and Forests department for the remainder of his career and wrote several books on the native trees and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacobus Boomsma
Jacobus Jan "Koos" Boomsma (born 1951) is a Dutch evolutionary biologist who studies social evolution and the evolution of mating systems. Education Boomsma obtained an MSc and PhD degree in biology in 1976 and 1982 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Career Boomsma directs the Centre of Social Evolution and works as a professor of biology at the University of Copenhagen. He is known most recently for the monogamy hypothesis, which states that strict lifetime monogamy enabled the evolution of eusociality in the Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, etc.).Boomsma, J. (2007) Kin selection versus sexual selection: why the ends do not meet. Current Biology 17:R673-R683.Boomsma, J. (2009) Lifetime monogamy and the evolution of eusociality. Phil. Trans. of the Royal Society, B Series 364:3191-3208. He has also lent influential contributions to the fields of mutualisms and sexual conflict and heads research programmes in evolutionary medicine, invasive social syndromes and fungal agri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arie Boomsma
Arie is a masculine given name. As a Dutch name, Arie (pronounced ) is generally a short form of Adrianus, but sometimes also of Arend or Arent, Arnout or Arnoud, or even Aaron. As a Hebrew, Jewish, or Israeli name, Arie (pronounced ) is a transliteration of the Hebrew word or name אריה, which means lion. Other transliterations include Arieh, Aryeh, and Ari. People with the name include: * Arie Alter (born 1961), Israeli footballer * Arie Altman (1902–1982), Israeli politician (''Aryeh) * (1903–1982), Dutch composer *Arie Aroch (1908–1974), Israeli painter * Arie van Beek (born 1951), Dutch music teacher and conductor *Arie Belldegrun (born 1949), Israeli-American urologic oncologist (''Aryeh'') * Arie Bieshaar (1899–1965), Dutch footballer (''Adrianus'') * Arie Bijl (1908–1945), Dutch theoretical physicist and resistance member * Arie Bijvoet (1891–1976), Dutch footballer * Arie Bodek (born 1947), American experimental particle physicist and professor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |