Ad Stouthamer

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Adriaan Hendrik "Ad" Stouthamer (born 31 October 1931) is a Dutch microbiologist. He was a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from the 1960s to 1996.

Life[]

Stouthamer was born on 31 October 1931 in Sas van Gent.[1] In 1960 he obtained his doctorate at Utrecht University under Klaas Winkler with a thesis titled: "Koolhydraatstofwisseling van de azijnzuurbacteriën". In 1963 he became lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He gave his inaugural lecture as professor in 1968.[2] From 1992 to 1995 he had a special teaching assignment in applied microbiology.[3] He retired in autumn 1996 and was succeeded in his chair by Hans Westerhoff.[4]

Stouthamer was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974.[5] In 1991 he gave the Kluyver lecture at the Royal Netherlands Association for Microbiology.[6]

References[]

  1. ^ "Kwartierstaat van Adriaan Hendrik STOUTHAMER" (in Dutch). home.hccnet.nl. 10 August 2010. Archived from the original on 5 May 2016.
  2. ^ "Proeve van een genealogie van hoogleraren in Eindhoven 1956 – 2015" (PDF). hjmwijers.nl. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2020.
  3. ^ "Gegevens betreffende de Vrije Universiteit" (PDF). hdc.vu.nl. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 June 2019.
  4. ^ Martine Zuidweg (11 June 1997). "De confrontatie" (in Dutch). Trouw. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  5. ^ "Ad Stouthamer". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 20 June 2020.
  6. ^ "Kluyver Lecture". Royal Netherlands Association for Microbiology. Archived from the original on 25 June 2020.


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