Adriaan Hendrik "Ad" Stouthamer (31 October 1931- 20 februari 2023) was a Dutch microbiologist. He was a professor at the

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

from the 1960s to 1996.

Life

Stouthamer was born on 31 October 1931 in

Sas van Gent Sas van Gent is a town in the Netherlands. It is located in the Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Terneuzen and lies about 30 km south of Vlissingen on the border with Belgium. The Ghent–Terneuzen Canal passes ...

. In 1960 he obtained his

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under Klaas Winkler with a thesis titled: "Koolhydraatstofwisseling van de azijnzuurbacteriën". In 1963 he became lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He gave his inaugural lecture as professor in 1968. From 1992 to 1995 he had a special teaching assignment in applied microbiology. He retired in autumn 1996 and was succeeded in his chair by

Hans Westerhoff Hans Victor Westerhoff (born 14 January 1953 in Amsterdam, Netherlands)Prof. dr. H.V. Westerhoff, 19 ...

. Stouthamer was elected a member of the

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in 1974. In 1991 he gave the Kluyver lecture at the Royal Netherlands Association for Microbiology.

References

1931 births Living people Dutch microbiologists Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Sas van Gent Utrecht University alumni Academic staff of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam {{Netherlands-scientist-stub