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Kuipers
Kuipers is a Dutch language, Dutch occupational surname meaning Cooper (profession), cooper's. Common spelling variants include Kuiper, Kuijpers, and Kuypers. Notable people with the surname include: * Aert H. Kuipers (1919–2012), Dutch linguist * Alice Kuipers (born 1979), British-Canadian author * André Kuipers (born 1958), Dutch astronaut * Bas Kuipers (born 1994), Dutch footballer * Benjamin Kuipers (born 1949) American computer scientist * Benno Kuipers (born 1974), Dutch breaststroke swimmer * Björn Kuipers (born 1973), Dutch football referee * Dennis Kuipers (born 1985), Dutch rally driver * Elizabeth Kuipers (born ca. 1950), British psychologist * Ellen Kuipers (born 1971), Dutch field hockey player * Francis Kuipers (born 1941), British composer, guitarist and ethno-musicologist * Frits Kuipers (1899–1943), Dutch footballer * Gerry Kuipers (1935–2013), Dutch businessman and auto restorer * Giselinde Kuipers (born 1971), Dutch sociologist * Harm Kuipers (born 1947) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Björn Kuipers
Björn Kuipers (; born 28 March 1973) is a former Dutch football referee. He has been a FIFA listed referee from 2006 to 2021 and an UEFA Elite group referee from 2009 to 2021. He was assisted during international matches by Sander van Roekel and Erwin Zeinstra. A supermarket owner by occupation, Kuipers has officiated at two World Cups and three European Championship tournaments. It was announced on 29 July 2021 that Kuipers would be retiring from refereeing, officiating his final match between Ajax and PSV on 7 August in the 2021 Johan Cruyff Shield. Refereeing career Domestic career Kuipers's debut professional domestic match as a referee was a second-tier clash between SC Telstar and MVV at the Rabobank IJmond Stadion in IJmuiden on 20 September 2002. He was inducted into the A-List of referees of the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) and has refereed in every season of the top-tier Dutch league Eredivisie from 2005. At the domestic level, he has also overseen se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Kuipers
Gerry Kuipers (born Gerhardus Kuipers; 31 July 1935) was a Dutch-Canadian businessman and auto restorer active in the late twentieth century. Kuipers was also the plaintiff in the 1976 Alberta Supreme Court lawsuit Kuipers v Gordon Riley Transport. Following Kuipers' passing in 2013, many of his personal papers were archived in the Gerry Segger Heritage Collection at The King's University in Edmonton, Canada. Early life Gerry Kuipers was born in the Netherlands in 1935 and immigrated to Canada in 1954 at the age of nineteen. In 1997, Kuipers' memories of the Netherlands in World War II were published by the Zwartsluis Historical Society. Entrepreneurship Gerry Kuipers founded several Canadian industrial companies including Rainbow Eavestroughing in 1964, Rainbow Aluminum Products in 1977, Rainbow Metal Products in 1982, and Hardwill Holdings in 1990. In 1986, Rainbow Metal Products built the eves for Edmonton's Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS), whose bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Kuipers
Alice Kuipers (born 29 June 1979) is a British author living in Saskatchewan, Canada who is best known for her young adult novels. ''Life on the Refrigerator Door'' won the Grand Prix de Viarmes, the Livrentête Prize, the Redbridge Teenage Book Award in 2008 and the Saskatchewan First Book Award in 2007, was narrated as an audio book by Amanda Seyfried and Dana Delany, and has been adapted for theater in England, France and Japan. ''40 Things I Want To Tell You'' won a Saskatchewan Book Award for Young Adult Literature in 2013. ''The Worst Thing She Ever Did'' (''Lost For Words'' in the U.S.) won the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Juvenile/YA Crime Book in 2011. Early life Kuipers was born the first of three children in London, EnglandPanmacmillan website, Author Profile: Alice Kuipers . Retrieved 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
André Kuipers
André Kuipers (; born 5 October 1958) is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He became the second Dutch citizen, third Dutch-born and fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on 19 April 2004. Kuipers returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-3 11 days later. Kuipers is the first Dutch astronaut to return to space. On 5 August 2009, Dutch minister of economic affairs Maria van der Hoeven, announced Kuipers was selected as an astronaut for International Space Station (ISS) Expeditions 30 and 31. He was launched to space on 21 December 2011 and returned to Earth on 1 July 2012. Personal life and education André Kuipers was born on 5 October 1958 in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. He graduated from high school in Amsterdam in 1977, and received a medical degree from the University of Amsterdam in 1987. He is married and has three daughters and a son. When interviewed about his youth, Kuipers stated that he dreamed of becoming an astronaut ever since he was a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bas Kuipers
Bas Edo Kuipers (born 17 August 1994) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a left-back for club Twente. Club career Ajax Born in Amsterdam, Kuipers was recruited into the youth academy of AFC Ajax in 2001 after having been discovered during the club's annual Talentendagen (''Talent days'') where young kids can come play football at Ajax for a chance to join the club's acclaimed youth academy. He joined the F1 Pupils selection at first from where he has advanced through every possible stage of the club's youth system. On 15 March 2013, Kuipers signed his first professional contract with Ajax, signing a two-year deal binding him to the club until 30 June 2015. Kuipers participated in the club's training camp during the pre-season, where he appeared in two friendly matches for the first team, namely against RKC Waalwijk on 13 July 2013, coming on in the 63' minute in the 5–1 victory at the Mandemakers Stadion, while also making an appearance in the pre-season friendl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harm Kuipers
Harm Kuipers (born 22 November 1947) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands. __NOTOC__ Kuipers combined his sports careers with being a Medicine student at the University of Groningen. Preferring his studies over speed skating, he did not participate in the 1972 Winter Olympics, a decision he still regrets today. The best year of his speed skating career was 1975, when he became World Allround Champion, after having won silver the year before. From 1971 to 1976, Kuipers also was a successful amateur bicycle racer. In December 1973 he married speed skater Marrie Willems in Norg. He had a son with her in 1974 and a daughter Margreet in 1975. They lived in Haren. Apart from combining his studies with his sports careers, another thing that set Kuipers apart was that he was his own coach, something that was in line with his later scientific career. After winning his world title in 1975, Kuipers concentrated on his scientific career, receiving his M.Sc. in Medicine from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Kuipers
Oscar Paul Kuipers (Rotterdam, May 12, 1956) is a Dutch professor of molecular genetics at the University of Groningen. His areas of expertise include microbiology, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, and biotechnology. Study and career * Kuipers graduated in 1986 in biology at Utrecht University. * In 1988 Kuipers obtained an '' EMBO Fellowship'' for three month at the lab of Dr. J. Gallay of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay (Paris) to study ''time-resolved'' Fluorescence. * In 1989 Kuipers received a SHELL fellowship to give lectures in the United States at Prof. Mahendra Jain (Newark), Prof. Michael Gelb (Seattle) and Prof. Yang (San Francisco) and on a conference about ''Time Resolved'' Fluorescence. * In 1990 Kuipers obtained his doctorate at the University of Utrecht in biochemistry with the thesis ''Probing the mechanism of pancreatic phospholipase A2 by protein engineering''. * From 1990 to 1997 he worked as a project leader on molecular genetics at the Departm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Kuipers-Rietberg
Helena Theodora Kuipers-Rietberg (26 May 1893 – 27 December 1944) was a Dutch resistance member who played an important role during World War II, when she was one of the driving forces of a national underground organization that supported those who were hiding from the German occupying forces. She was known as "Tante Riek", or "Aunt Riek". Early life Helena Kuipers was born on 26 May 1893 to grain merchants and millers Hendrik Rietberg and Clara Christina Theodora Dulfer in Winterswijk, as the fourth child in a Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, Dutch Reformed family. She attended the Hogere burgerschool where she met her future husband, Piet Kuipers (1892–1978), also a merchant in grain. After graduation she worked in her father's office, and her husband bought into the company. They had two sons and three daughters. Kuipers was also active in local organizations, and in 1932 co-founded the ''Gereformeerde Vrouwenbeweging'', an organization of Dutch Reformed women, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
