Van 't Hof and Van 't Hoff are
Dutch toponymic surname
A toponymic surname or habitational surname or byname is a surname or byname derived from a place name, s meaning "from the homestead".
Other variants are ''Van Hoff'', ''Van den Hof'', ''Van der Hoff'', ''Van't Hof'' and ''Vanthof''. Notable people with these surnames include:
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Erik Van't Hof (born 1960), Dutch-born American tennis player
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Jasper van 't Hof
Jasper van 't Hof (born 30 June 1947) is a Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard player.
Van 't Hof was born in Enschede, Overijssel, Netherlands, and began studying piano at the age of five. He played in jazz bands at school, and by the age of 19 was ...
(born 1947), Dutch jazz pianist and keyboard-player
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Kaes Van't Hof (born 1986), American tennis player
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Robert Van't Hof (born 1959), American tennis player
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Dilano van 't Hoff (2004–2023), Dutch racing driver
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Ernst van 't Hoff (1908–1955), Dutch jazz pianist and bandleader
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Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemistry, physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobe ...
(1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
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van 't Hoff equation
The Van 't Hoff equation relates the change in the equilibrium constant, , of a chemical reaction to the change in temperature, ''T'', given the standard enthalpy change, , for the process. The subscript r means "reaction" and the superscript \om ...
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van 't Hoff factor
The van 't Hoff factor (named after Dutch chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff) is a measure of the effect of a solute on colligative properties such as osmotic pressure, relative lowering in vapor pressure, boiling-point elevation and freez ...
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Le Bel-van't Hoff rule
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Robert van 't Hoff
Robert van 't Hoff (November 5, 1887 – April 25, 1979), born Robbert van 't Hoff, was a Dutch architect and furniture designer. His ''Villa Henny'', designed in 1914, was one of the earliest modernist houses and one of the first to be built o ...
(1887–1979), Dutch architect and furniture designer
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Dirk Van der Hoff (1814–1891), Dutch-born South African Protestant minister
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Frans van der Hoff (born 1939), Dutch missionary who launched the first Fairtrade label
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Ron van der Hoff (born 1978), Dutch archer
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Arthur van Hoff (born 1963), Dutch computer scientist and businessman
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Nestor Nielsen van Hoff (born 1972), Uruguayan show jumping rider
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John Vanthof
John Vanthof ( , born ) is a Canadian politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in 2011. He represents the riding of Timiskaming—Cochrane. On August 23, 2018 he was ...
(born 1963), Canadian (Ontario) politician
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van't Hoff (crater)
van't Hoff is a lunar impact crater named after Dutch chemist Jacobus H. van 't Hoff and is located to the northeast of the walled plain Birkhoff, on the far side of the Moon. To the northwest is the crater Stebbins, and to the east li ...
, a lunar crater named for Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff
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Gerard 't Hooft
Gerardus "Gerard" 't Hooft (; born July 5, 1946) is a Dutch theoretical physicist and professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He shared the 1999 Nobel Prize in Physics with his thesis advisor Martinus J. G. Veltman "for elucidating t ...
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Hof (surname)
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von Hoff surname
References
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Dutch toponymic surnames