Jacob van der Hoeden ( he, יעקב ואן דר הודן, 27 July 1891 in

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– 1 February 1968) was a Dutch-born

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veterinary Veterinary medicine is the branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, management, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, disorder, and injury in animals. Along with this, it deals with animal rearing, husbandry, breeding, research on nutri ...

research scientist.

Biography

Jacob (Jaap) Van der Hoeden was born into a

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family in the

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in 1891. He completed his doctorate in 1921. Van der Hoeden, together with his four children, survived the

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thanks to the help of Dutch

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who hid the family in various places. However, his wife died of illness prior to the end of

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Veterinary career

Van der Hoeden served from 1924 to 1929 as a senior researcher at the Dutch national public health institute and a professor of veterinary medicine at

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. In 1929, he was appointed to head the University's hospital laboratories and, in 1932, was elected to the Dutch Society for Natural Sciences. He became a leading authority on diseases that pass from animals to humans. In 1948, the Minister of Agriculture in the interim government of the State of Israel invited van der Hoeden to establish the Veterinary Institute in Israel. In 1955, he moved to the

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, where he worked until his retirement in 1966. Van der Hoeden died in 1968 in Israel.

Awards and recognition

* In 1961, van der Hoeden was awarded the Israel Prize, in

agriculture Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people t ...

. * In 1961, he was awarded the Zimmerman Prize.

References

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Biography

Veterinary career

Awards and recognition

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