This is a list of chancellors (''rectores magnifici'') of

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

, as from 1575. Three

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are among these chancellors:

Hendrik Lorentz Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (; 18 July 1853 – 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the Lorentz t ...

Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (21 September 1853 – 21 February 1926) was a Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate. He exploited the Hampson–Linde cycle to investigate how materials behave when cooled to nearly absolute zero and later to liquefy helium f ...

and

Willem Einthoven Willem Einthoven (21 May 1860 – 29 September 1927) was a Dutch doctor and physiologist. He invented the first practical electrocardiograph (ECG or EKG) in 1895 and received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1924 for it ("for the di ...

16th century

1575–1600

17th century

1601–1620

1621–1640

1641–1660

1661–1680

1681–1700

18th century

1701–1720

1721–1740

1741–1760

1761–1780

1781–1800

19th century

1801–1820

1821–1840

1841–1860

1861–1880

1881–1900

20st century

1901–1920

1921–1940

1941–1960

1961–2000

21st century

Literature

* Harm Beukers

t al T, or t, is the twentieth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''tee'' (pronounced ), plural ''tees''. It is deri ...

: ''Album Scholasticum academiae Lugduno-Batavae MCMLXXV-MCMLXXXIX.'' (1575–1989), Leids Universiteits-Fonds, Leiden, 1991 * R.E.O. Ekkart: ''Athenae Batavae. De Leidse Universiteit / The University of Leiden 1575-1975''. Universitaire Pers Leiden, 1975. * ''Icones Leidenses''. Leiden, Universitaire Pers, 1973.

References

External links

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