The Leiden University Medical Centre organises medical trainings called Boerhaave-courses.

He travelled back and forth to his friend's garden and to the Leiden University by trekschuit.

Entering the University of Leiden he took his degree in philosophy in 1689, with a dissertation De distinctione mentis a corpore ( on the difference of the mind from the body ), in which he attacked the doctrines of Epicurus, Thomas Hobbes and Spinoza.

His reputation so increased the fame of the University of Leiden, especially as a school of medicine, that it became popular with visitors from every part of Europe.

The operating theatre of the University of Leiden in which he once worked as an anatomist is now at the center of a museum named after him ; the Boerhaave Museum.

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Einstein was impressed, translated the paper himself from English to German and submitted it for Bose to the Zeitschrift für Physik, which published it ( The Einstein manuscript, once believed to be lost, was found in a library at Leiden University in 2005 .).

In 1911, just three years after helium was first liquified, Onnes working at University of Leiden discovered superconductivity in mercury, when he observed the electrical resistivity in mercury to vanish when the temperature was lowered below a certain value.

Born in Rotterdam, Dijkstra studied theoretical physics at Leiden University, but quickly realized he was more interested in computer science.

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In 1924, Fermi spent a semester at the University of Göttingen with Max Born, and then stayed for a few months in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest.

On the other hand, Michael K. Richardson, Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Zoology, Leiden University, while recognizing that some criticisms of the drawings are legitimate ( indeed, it was he and his co-workers who began the modern criticisms in 1998 ), has supported the drawings as teaching aids, and has said that " on a fundamental level, Haeckel was correct "

Adams acquired an education at institutions such as Leiden University.

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At the same conference the philosopher Jan Sleutels ( Leiden University ) presented on Jaynesian psychology.

The effects of this " Kleistian jar " were independently discovered around the same time by Dutch scientists Pieter van Musschenbroek and Cunaeus at the University of Leiden.

Another is a second-generation Lingua Cosmica developed by the Dutch-Swedish astronomer and mathematician Alexander Ollongrenof Leiden University, using constructive logic.

* 1595 – Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.

** Leiden University, Minerva is presented in the centre of the great seal of the most ancient University in the Netherlands ( 1575 ).

* 1587 – Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.

In April 1629 he joined the University of Franeker, living at the Sjaerdemaslot, and the next year, under the name " Poitevin ", he enrolled at the Leiden University to study mathematics with Jacob Golius and astronomy with Martin Hortensius.

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In Leiden they lived in small houses behind the " Kloksteeg ", opposite the Pieterskerk.

A university city since 1575, Leiden houses Leiden University and Leiden University Medical Centre.

Leiden also houses the headquarters of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company N. V. ( EADS ), a global pan-European aerospace and defence corporation and a leading defence and military contractor worldwide.

One of the buildings which currently houses Leiden Observatory

* 1913-1914 Small houses in and about Leiden.

A more recent translation of the Autobiography appears in D. Gutas, Avicenna and the Aristotelian Tradition: Introduction to Reading Avicenna's Philosophical Works, Leiden: Brill, 1988.

The director of Leiden Observatory, van de Sande-Bakhuyzen, responded quickly to Stieltjes ' request on 1 January 1883 to stop his observational work to allow him to work more on mathematical topics.

About the same time William Cheselden in London, the first Alexander Monro in Edinburgh, and Bernhard Siegfried Albinus in Leiden, contributed by their several treatises to render anatomy still more precise as a descriptive science.

Leiden University has six faculties, over 50 departments and more than 150 undergraduate programmes and enjoys an outstanding international reputation.

But in the 19th and 20th century, it conceded more and more of its territory to the rapidly expanding city of Leiden.

The NS covers most of the country, with almost all cities connected, mostly with a service frequency of two trains an hour or more ( and at least four trains per hour between all of the largest 5 cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht and Eindhoven as well as some larger cities: Nijmegen, Amersfoort, Arnhem ,'s-Hertogenbosch, Dordrecht and Leiden ).

His novels Die Leiden der Ortenbergischen Familie ( The Sorrows of the Ortenberg Family ) ( 1785 ) and Geschichte meines Vaters ( History of my Father ) ( 1788 ) met with appreciation ; even more so did his plays Adelheid von Wulfingen ( 1789 ), Menschenhass und Reue ( Misanthropy and Repentance ) ( 1790 ) and Die Indianer in England ( The Indians in England ) ( 1790 ).

Like his even more famous contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen attended the Latin school and became a student in Leiden.

While only 1 percent of people with factor V Leiden have two copies of the defective gene, these homozygous individuals have a more severe clinical condition.

Pre-eclampsia is also more common in women who have preexisting hypertension, diabetes, autoimmune diseases such as lupus, various inherited thrombophilias such as Factor V Leiden, renal disease, women with a family history of pre-eclampsia, obese women, and women with a multiple gestation ( twins or multiple birth ).

In Northern Europe the Delilah theme was more prominent among painters like Lucas van Leiden and Maerten van Heemskerck, who made a large woodcut of the subject after Titian.

Webster operates as an independent, non-denominational university with more than 100 campus locations around the world, including Webster University Geneva, Webster University Thailand, Webster University Vienna, Regent's American College London, and Webster University Leiden.

Winslow and his wife Elizabeth were part of the Leiden Separatist group who had decided to travel far away from England and the repressive regime of King James I to more freely practice their religious beliefs.

It was established by Leiden University in 1633, to house the quadrant of Snellius, and is the oldest operating University observatory in the world ( before this, astronomy taught at medieval universities tended to be of a more theoretical nature, and any observations were usually done with private equipment rather than at University observatories — see this timeline ).

So great was the outcry caused by its publication that La Mettrie was forced to quit his position with the French Guards, taking refuge in Leiden, where he developed his doctrines still more boldly and completely in L ' Homme machine a hastily-written treatise based upon consistently materialistic and quasi-atheistic principles.

They stayed printers in Leiden for two more generations of Van Ravelinge, until 1619.

He studied two more years at the University of Leiden, where he attended lectures by, among others, Pieter van Musschenbroek, which lead Ingenhousz to have a lifelong interest in electricity.

Maria Catherina Swanenburg ( Leiden 9 September 1839-Gorinchem 11 April 1915 ) was a Dutch serial killer, who murdered at least 27, and was suspected of killing more than 90 people.

Excavations carried on in 1891 led to the discovery of the northern portion of the western town wall, which in one section served at the same time as an embankment against floods — it was apparently more conspicuous in the time of Philipp Cluver, ( Sicilia antiqua, Leiden, 1619 ) p. 133 — of an extensive necropolis, about 1500 tombs of which have been explored, and of a deposit of votive objects from a temple.

In 1665 or 1666 he returned to Paris, and published in 1671 Les Entretiens d ' Ariste et d ' Eugène, which was reprinted four more times at Paris, twice at Grenoble, and afterwards at Lyon, Brussels, Amsterdam, Leiden and other cities.

The family objected to her going abroad, so he did not return to Leiden, but settled once more in Edinburgh.