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Biologie, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht en promoveerde aldaar in 1956 cum laude tot doctor in de wiskunde en natuurwetenschappen op het proefschrift: Regulation of the spermatogenic cycle in the common frog, (Rana temporaria). Zijn promotor was prof.dr Gregorius Johannes van Oordt (A2 XIa, blz. XX).
Assistent en hoofdassistent/wetenschappelijk ambtenaar (1949-1963), Zoölogisch Laboratorium Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht;1963 lector Algemene Dierkunde, belast met de leiding van de werkgroep Vergelijkende Endocrinologie, als opvolger van zijn promotor. (Het wetenschappelijk onderzoek van de werkgroep heeft zich onder zijn leiding vooral gericht op de hormonale regulatie van de voortplanting van vissen, mede in verband met de vraag naar de kweek van voor voedselvoorziening belangrijke vissoorten.). Gewoon hoogleraar in de Vergelijkende Endocrinologie (1968); emeritaat (1989).
Buiten Utrecht heeft hij wetenschappelijk onderzoek verricht aan de universiteiten van St. Andrews (1957) en Jeruzalem (1974 en 1979) en hij gaf gastcolleges in diverse plaatsen in Europa en Jeruzalem.
Naast verschillende bestuursfuncties binnen de Utrechtse universiteit, was hij onder meer voorzitter van de staatscommissie Modernisering Leerplan Biologie (1971-1974), voorzitter van de Biologische Raad van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (1987-1991); resp. secretaris-penningmeester, vice-president en president van de European Society for Comparitive Endocrinology (1965-1986); voorzitter van het Nederlands Comité van het Weizmann Instituut van Wetenschappen te Rehovot (Israël) (1986-2000); lid van het bestuur van de International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS) te Parijs (1991-1997) en voorzitter van het IUBS-programma Reproductive Biology in Aquaculture (1991-1997); leider van het Nederlands/Israëlische Project betreffende de ontwikkeling van methoden voor de kweek van de Afrikaanse meerval t.b.v. ontwikkelingslanden (1980-1985).
Fellow of the Institute of Life Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977); Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw (1990).
Hij was lid van het bestuuur (vanaf 1967) en voorzitter (1987-1997), daarna erelid van de Vereeniging der Familie Van Oordt.

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Birthday July 26, 1927

  • The temperature on July 26, 1927 was between 13.7 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1927: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 7.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » New Mexican oil legislation goes into effect, leading to the formal outbreak of the Cristero War.
    • April 27 » Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
    • September 30 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season.
    • October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
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    • December 19 » Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in the Kakori conspiracy.

Day of death May 27, 2011

  • The temperature on May 27, 2011 was between 9.5 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (38%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
  • In the year 2011: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 16.5 million citizens.
    • February 13 » For the first time in more than 100 years the Umatilla, an American Indian tribe, are able to hunt and harvest a bison just outside Yellowstone National Park, restoring a centuries-old tradition guaranteed by a treaty signed in 1855.
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    • September 20 » The United States military ends its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.
    • September 29 » The special court in India convicted all 269 accused officials for atrocity on Dalits and 17 for rape in the Vachathi case.


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