The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a

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of more than 30,000 students in the city of

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in the

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. Founded in 1614, the university is the second oldest in the country (after

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) and one of the most traditional and prestigious universities in the Netherlands. The institution has been consistently ranked among the top 100 universities in the world, according to leading ranking tables. In the 2022 Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities, RUG is ranked fourth in the Netherlands. The University of Groningen has eleven faculties, nine

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s, 27 research centres and institutes, and more than 175-degree programmes. The university's alumni and faculty include

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, four

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winners, nine

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winners, one

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winner, various members of the

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, several politicians, the first president of the

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, and a secretary general of

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History

The institution was founded as a college in 1614 in an initiative taken by the Regional Assembly of the city of

and the ''

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'', or surrounding region. There were four faculties – Theology, Law, Medicine, and Philosophy. The

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of the university was confirmed by The Estates of the City and County of Groningen in 1615. It consists of the provincial arms, charged with an open book inscribed with the abbreviated words VER/BVM/DNI LV/CER/NA, short for ''Verbum Domini Lucerna Pedibus Nostris''. The shield is surmounted by a golden crown of five leaves and four pearls. In the first 75 years of its existence about 100 students enrolled every year. Almost half of the students and lecturers came from outside the Netherlands – the first ''rector magnificus'',

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, came from

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in modern-day Germany, for instance – but at the same time there was already a close relationship between the University and the city and the surrounding region. The development of the University came to a standstill at the end of the seventeenth and during the eighteenth century because of theological differences of opinion, a difficult relationship with the Regional Assembly and political problems that included the siege of the city by ‘''Bommen Berend''’ in 1672. On average two to three hundred students were registered with the University at any one time during this period. Academiegebouw Groningen 1858

During the French occupation between 1775 and 1814 the University of Groningen was administrated by the Imperial University of Paris. Unlike Leiden University, it was not shut down and the institute was renamed Imperial University of Groningen (''Keizerlijke Universiteit Groningen''). During this time period, it remained the only open university in the

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. In 1815 after the Napoleonic Wars, at the same time as Leiden and Utrecht, the university gained recognition as a national college of higher education, but this was followed by discussions about closure. The situation improved when a new main university building, the Academiegebouw, was constructed in 1850, a building that was largely financed by the people of Groningen. A fire completely destroyed the building in 1906. In the meantime, the Higher Education Act of 1876 had radically improved the position of the university, which was renamed the "''Rijksuniversiteit Groningen''" (RUG). Teaching took place in Dutch and Latin and the university was given a research as well as an educational duty. 090529 Academiegebouw Groningen NL

The University of Groningen developed during the first decades of the twentieth century. The number of faculties and courses grew steadily while the number of students grew rapidly. When the university celebrated its first 300 years in 1914 there were 611 registered students; this had grown to 1,000 by 1924. After a drop back during the Depression, and in particular during the Second World War, the number of students grew rapidly from 1945 to reach 20,000 in 1994. In recent times there are about 32,700 students registered at the University of Groningen with the number of foreign students again growing steadily, and following the tradition set by the first Rector Magnificus, the number of German students and researchers has grown strongly in recent years. In March 2015, the RUG signed an agreement with the

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to establish a campus in the Chinese city of

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. This would have made the RUG the first Dutch university to open a campus in China. The plan was heavily criticised, mainly due to worries about the restriction of academic freedom caused by

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. In January 2018, the plans were cancelled by the Executive Board of the UG, based on the "insufficient support for the project".

Facts and figures

Key facts and figures about the University of Groningen are: * The university, as of 2020, has 34,000 students enrolled in various programs from the undergraduate level up to doctorate students. This includes 8,250 international students. * The university currently has 3,600 individuals in its academic staff. The UMCG included, a third of the academic staff is international. * 425

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s * 45+ bachelor's degree programmes (35+ bachelor's degree programmes are taught in English) * 120+ master's degree programmes taught in English * 40+ research master's and top programmes * 11 faculties (one in the Frisian capital of Leeuwarden), nine graduate schools * 140,000 alumni * 120+ nationalities * 8,000 research publications * 4,350 PhD candidates (51% international) * 1.0 billion EUR budget * Research grants from the

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(NWO): 14 starting grants (Veni), 5 experienced research grants (Vidi) and 4 senior research grants (Vici) awarded in 2020 * Research grants from the

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(ERC): 1 Starting Grant, 1 Consolidator Grant, 3 Advanced Grants and 1 Proof of Concept Grant awarded in 2020 * 18 patent applications in 2020 StudentenRUG

The university operates under the BSA system, under which a first year undergraduate (bachelor) student must achieve a certain number of ECTS in order to progress to the second year. This varies from 30 ECTS to 45 ECTS among various degrees. The University of Groningen is a member of the so-called Excellence Group of universities in Europe. The Excellence Group has 56 members, which is 1.3 percent of the approximately 4,500 European institutions of higher education. * The University of Groningen belongs to the top 100 large comprehensive research universities in the world. * On the 2021 ranking list, the University of Groningen ranked 80th place in the

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. * According to the 2019 U.S. News & World Report the Faculty of Economics and Business ranks as 3rd in The Netherlands, 10th in Europe and 32nd in the world for Economics and Business.Global University Rankings
retrieved 4 April 2015 * The University ranked 64 in the

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(ARWU) in 2021. ARWU is a global Top 500 published annually by the

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. In addition to this overall score, the University falls within the global top 100 for several specific fields and subjects: Psychology (41), Clinical Medicine (51-75), Business Administration (37), Ecology (51-75). * The University was ranked 73rd in the world in 2019 by the National Taiwan University that publishes the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities. * The University currently holds the 14th position in the European ranking (85 worldwide) of Webometrics. *The University was ranked 3rd place in the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking in 2021, which includes 780 universities. UI GreenMetric World University Rankings was launched by

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(UI) to focus awareness on sustainability in university policy-making. Universities are ranked in the basis of self-reported data in the areas of Setting and Infrastructure, Energy and Climate Change, Waste, Water, Transportation, and Education and Research. *From 2019 to 2020, the University was ranked 91st place in the Centre for World University Rankings (CWUR). *In 2019, Times Higher Education introduced a new ranking: the Europe Teaching Rankings. The University was ranked 26th place, which includes more than 200 universities. This new ranking focusses on higher education institutions' teaching quality and learning environments for students. *The University was ranked 1st in The Netherlands by

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(UMR)in 2019. UMR was developed by a consortium consisting of the Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) in Twente, the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) in Germany and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) in Leiden. The University achieved the highest score on 16 indicators that include International Orientation dimension, Research and Knowledge Transfer. * The Faculty of Economics and Business is accredited by both

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and

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. * The RUG has its own newspaper: the ''Universiteitskrant''. The university's Center for Information Technology (CIT) houses an IBM

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and data center of

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used by the LOFAR project as well as a Virtual Reality and 3D-visualisation center.

Organisation

The RUG has 6,250 employees. The university library was renovated between 2013 and 2017. The RUG has a branch in Leeuwarden. Plans to establish a "branch campus" in China's Yantai were called off in January 2018, and the University Museum is now in the process of being established. The University of Groningen is represented in the Academic Heritage Foundation, a foundation that aims to preserve university collections and cultural treasures.

Faculties

The University of Groningen is organized in eleven faculties that offer programmes and courses in the fields of humanities, social sciences, law, economics and business, spatial sciences, life sciences, and natural sciences and technology. Each faculty (''cf.'', College in the USA or School in Europe) is a formal grouping of academic degree programmes, schools and institutes, discipline areas, research centres, and/or any combination of these drawn together for educational purposes. Each faculty offers Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, and Exchange programmes, while some also offer short certificate courses. Since 2014, the RUG also has a partly independent

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(UCG). * Faculty of Economics and Business * Faculty of Arts * Faculty of Law * Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies * Faculty of Philosophy * Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences * Faculty of Medical Sciences * Faculty of Science and Engineering * Faculty of

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National Cooperation

*Exposome-NL, Dutch consortium cooperating in the field of exposome research.

International Cooperation

The University of Groningen engages in many types of international cooperation throughout both teaching and research. The main networks and partners of the university are: *Enlight, an alliance of nine European universities, The Guild of European research-intensive universities and the

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, a network of 37 long established European multidisciplinary universities. *Strategic partnerships (academic connection): Universität Hamburg (UHH) and

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*Global strategic partnerships:

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Campus

The various faculties are housed around the city. Most of the faculties- including the faculties of Law, Arts and Philosophy are located in and around the city center. The university's original building, which acts as the main administrative building, lies exactly in the center of the city at the ''Broerstraat''. The faculty of medical sciences is located close by at the

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(UMCG). The Faculties of Economics and Business, Spatial Sciences, and Science and Engineering are housed in the northern outskirts of the city, at the Zernike Campus, named after

winner

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. The Zernike campus is also shared by the

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, the other big university in the city, making the total number of students studying there around 40,000. The university has libraries in three locations: the main one at the city center, one in the Duisenberg building in Zernike Campus, and one in the faculty of medicine, that includes a vast array of books and online material for students. The library at the city center also has a

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on its premises. The university has also recently opened another campus in Leeuwarden, Friesland, referred to as "Campus Fryslân", that offers multiple disciplines in both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Student life

The city of Groningen is known as the student city of the Netherlands; around one-third of the city's residents are students at either The University of Groningen or at the

. The university, through ACLO, offers a wide range of sporting activities, and courses. Almost each sport has its own association, and offers the use of its facilities at discount rates for students. The university also has multiple student societies that organize social events for its members, as well as student and study associations, that are mostly concerned with specific faculties and courses. The use of

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s as the means for transport is particularly prevalent for locals and students alike, and has integrated, labelled bike paths from the city center to Zernike. The city is popularly referred to as "The World Cycling City" because of this.

Student housing

The University of Groningen does not have student accommodation. It does, however, offer students with accommodation via

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, which operates student houses in various locations in Groningen, and various other cities within the Netherlands. A significant number of students live in private accommodations within the city, however, a recent addition to the housing options for students is

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as well. In an effort to combat the annual housing shortage, the city of Groningen has incentivized the construction of short-term accommodation such as The Village which is made of shipping containers for international students. The Dutch government has strict laws for private accommodations for both tenants (students) and the landlords, so that fair rent prices, and renting conditions can be maintained. In 2018, the university received national attention due to the housing crisis in the city of Groningen. Due to the fact that most incoming students at the university are primarily from other parts of the country, or the world, there has been a lack of housing options for students. Especially in the fall semester of 2021 the housing crisis hit its peak with hundreds of students reportedly not having any accommodation and resorting to emergency shelters. The housing shorting evoked a protest in the city centre which culminated in the Academy building being temporarily occupied by students to put pressure on the city to extend emergency housing.

Research

In 2019, 708 PhD students were admitted to a PhD programme (compared to 816 in 2018). Around 50% of the admitted PhD students came from abroad. In 2019, a total of 546 PhDs took place, 22 of them cum laude. The national share was thus around 11%.

Research schools, centres and institutes

Humanities and Social Sciences * Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) * Centre for Religion and Heritage *Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization (CRCG) *Centre Religion, Health and Wellbeing *CRASIS, Culture, Religion and Society in Graeco-Roman Antiquity *Globalisation Studies Groningen (GSG) * Groningen Institute of Archeology (GIA) * Groningen Institute for Educational research (GION) * Groningen Research Institute of Philosophy (GRIPH) * Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG) * Heymans Institute *Institute of Indian Studies * Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) *Qumran Institute * Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI) Law * Centre for Law, Administration and Society (CRBS) * Groningen Centre of Energy Law (GCEL) Economics & Business * SOM research institute Life Sciences * Research School of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (BCN) / UMCG * Research Institute BCN-BRAIN / UMCG * Cancer Research Center Groningen (CRCG) / UMCG * Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences (GELIFES) * Groningen University Institute for Drug Exploration (GUIDE) / UMCG * Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology (GBB) * Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy (GRIP) * Science in Healthy Ageing and healthcaRE (SHARE), UMCG * W.J. Kolff Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Materials Science / UMCG Science and Engineering * Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence * ENTEG - Engineering and Technology Institute Groningen * ESRIG - Energy and Sustainability Research Institute Groningen * GBB - Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute * GELIFES - Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences * GRIP - Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy * ISEC - Institute for Science Education and Communication *

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* Stratingh Institute for Chemistry * Van Swinderen Institute for Particle Physics and Gravity *

Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials The Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials is the department of nanoscience and materials science of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. The institute is named after the Dutch Nobel prize winner Frits Zernike, famous for his developm ...

(ZIAM)

Graduate schools

The University of Groningen's Graduate Schools are organized somewhat different from its international counterparts. The main difference is that the Graduate Schools do not contain all Master's programmes; Graduate Schools manage and facilitate the two-year Master's programmes: top master's degree programmes and Research master's degree programmes. * Graduate School of Behavioural and Social Sciences * Graduate School of Economics and Business * Graduate School of Humanities * Graduate School of Law * Graduate School of Medical Sciences * Graduate School of Philosophy * Graduate School of Science * Graduate School of Spatial Sciences * Graduate School of Theology and Religious Studies

Notable alumni

Notable alumni of the University of Groningen include: *

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, first Dutch behavior geneticist *

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, theologian *

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, early 19th century physician *

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* Johan van Benthem, logician *

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, former Chairman of

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, mathematician *

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Marc Bolland Marc Bolland (born 28 March 1959) is a Dutch businessman, who was the CEO of Marks & Spencer, after having been CEO of UK supermarket company Morrisons. Biography Early life He received a bachelor's degree from the Hotelschool The Hague, and t ...

, former CEO of

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* Dolf van den Brink, CEO of

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USA *

Corina Brussaard Corina Brussaard is a leading scientist for Antarctic viral ecology working for the Royal Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) and is a Special Professor of Viral Ecology at the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics of the University of ...

, Antarctic researcher in viral ecology and phytoplankton *

Anita Buma Anita Gerry Johanna Buma (born 1958) is a Dutch Antarctic researcher, best known for her work on ecophysiology of marine microalgae. She was the first Dutch female researcher in Antarctica. Early life and education Buma obtained her Biology mast ...

, Antarctic researcher in marine

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, Irish historian and author * James Burnett *

Job Cohen Marius Job Cohen (; born 18 October 1947) is a retired Dutch politician and jurist who served as Mayor of Amsterdam from 2001 to 2010 and Leader of the Labour Party (PvdA) from 2010 to 2012. Cohen studied Law at the University of Groningen obt ...

, former mayor of

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and former leader of the

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, hedge fund manager, featured on '' Million Dollar Traders'' on

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, first president of the

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studied at UG and obtained his PhD on the economics of

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, founder of the University of Groningen and first

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in 2016 for his work on molecular motors, professor of Chemistry *

Pim Fortuyn Wilhelmus Simon Petrus Fortuijn, known as Pim Fortuyn (; 19 February 1948 – 6 May 2002), was a Dutch politician, author, civil servant, businessman, sociologist and academic who founded the party Pim Fortuyn List (Lijst Pim Fortuyn or LPF) ...

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, later politician and founder of the

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(and assassinated in 2002) *

Willem Frederik Hermans Willem Frederik Hermans (1 September 1921 – 27 April 1995) was a Dutch author of poetry, novels, short stories, plays, as well as book-length studies, essays, and literary criticism. His most famous works are ''The House of Refuge'' (novella, ...

, lecturer and writer *

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, philosopher and psychologist *

Jack Hoeksema Jacob "Jack" Hoeksema (born 30 October 1956 in Groningen) is a linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture with a specialities in semantics, morphology, and historical linguistics. His first degree was in Dutch literature ...

, linguist and professor in the Department of Dutch Language and Culture * , jurist, attorney-general of Suriname and acting governor *

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, professor of

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, joined IBM in 1996, currently the chief architect of the Synergistic Processor Element (SPE) of the Cell microprocessor *

Johan Huizinga Johan Huizinga (; 7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history. Life Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two y ...

, historian * Niccolò Invidia, member of parliament

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, first woman in the

to receive an MD *

Ashin Jinarakkhita Ashin Jinarakkhita (23 January 1923 – 18 April 2002), born Tee Boan-an 戴滿安 was an Indonesian-born Chinese who revived Buddhism in Indonesia. He was also known as Bhante Ashin, Tizheng Lao Heshang 體正老和尚, Teh-ching, Sukong 師� ...

, Indonesian Buddhist monk * Klaas Knot, current President of the Dutch central bank De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) * Jaap Kunst, ethnomusicologist (studied law) * Wei Ji Ma, professor of psychology and neuroscience * Prince Prince Maurits of Orange-Nassau, van Vollenhoven, Maurits van Oranje Nassau, first cousin of King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands * John Nerbonne, professor of humanities computing, expert in dialectology, member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science * Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch astronaut, received a PhD degree in physics and mathematics, 1973 * Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his experiments on the properties of matter at low temperatures which made the production of liquid helium possible * Jan Oort, astronomer * Maria Oudeman, businesswoman and former President of Utrecht University (studied law) * Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever * Johannes Jacobus Poortman, philosopher, psychologist * Dagmar Reichardt, professor of Cultural Industry at University of Latvia * James Renwick (Covenanter) James Renwick (15 February 1662 – 17 February 1688) Scottish Covenanter * Willem de Sitter, astronomer * Henk G. Sol, Professor Business Engineering and ICT * Dirk Stikker, Secretary General of NATO * Pieter Jelles Troelstra, lawyer, politician (early 20th century) * Wietse Venema, programmer and physicist * Roel de Vries (engineer), Roel de Vries, Global Head of Marketing at Nissan Motor Corporation* Clemens Maria Franz von Bönninghausen, Clemens von Bönninghausen, lawyer, botanist, homeopathic physician * Jacques Wallage, former mayor of Groningen * Hans Wijers, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of ING, former CEO of AkzoNobel * Paramanga Ernest Yonli, Prime Minister of Burkina Faso (2000–2007), studied Economics *

, professor of

, received the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the Phase-contrast microscope, phase-contrast optical microscope in 1953. The university campus in the northern part of Groningen is named in his honour. * Epke Zonderland, 2012 Olympics gold medalist

Notable researchers

* Mineke Bosch, historian * Cornelis de Bot, linguist * Marijn van Dijk, developmental psychologist * Caroline van Eck, art historian * Paul van Geert, developmental psychologist * Wander Lowie, linguist * Erik Scherder * Diederik Stapel, professor of social psychology known for fabrication of research data * Wolfgang Stroebe, social psychologist * Albert Szent-Györgyi, biochemist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 * Marjolijn Verspoor, linguist * Angus Maddison, British economist * . applied physics *

, synthetic organic chemist, awarded the

in 2016 * , professor of Ethics and its history * Amina Helmi, an Argentine astronomer, and a professor of dynamics, structure and formation of the milky way * Lodi Nauta, professor of the History of Philosophy * Cisca Wijmenga, a Dutch professor of Human Genetics * Theunis Piersma, a Dutch professor of Global Flyway Ecology * Linda Steg, a professor of environmental psychology, and a pioneer and world leader in the field of environmental psychology * Sijbren Otto, a chemist * Nathalie Katsonis, chemist * Sabeth Verpoorte professor of microfluidics and miniaturized "lab-on-a-chip" systems in the Faculty of Science and Engineering * Jacques Zeelen, professor of globalization studies and humanitarian action

References

External links

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