Family tree familie Smit » Petrus Johannes Waardenburg (1886-1979)

Personal data Petrus Johannes Waardenburg 

  • He was born on June 3, 1886 in Kolderveen, Nijeveen, Drenthe, Nederland.
  • Occupations:
    • Oogarts.
      Hij studeerde geneeskunde en oogheelkunde aan de Universiteit van Utrecht en promoveerde op een proefschrift over de erfelijke basis van fysiologische en pathologische eigenschappen van het oog. Hij was zeer geïnteresseerd in erfelijke oogziekten, en verrichtte, zelf vader van een eeneiige tweeling, ook onderzoek bij tweelingen. Hij was een van de eersten die al in 1932 suggereerde dat het syndroom van Down weleens een gevolg van een chromosoomafwijking zou kunnen zijn, wat pas 27 jaar later werd bevestigd.

      Tijdens de bezetting in de Tweede Wereldoorlog was hij een uitgesproken en onbevreesd tegenstander van de nazi's.

      In 1947 introduceerde hij het syndroom (syndroom van Waardenburg)dat later naar hem werd genoemd. Zijn onderzoek begon al in 1922 en was voor die tijd revolutionair vanwege de opzet en aannames die hij deed. Zijn vergelijkend onderzoek naar de incidentie en vererving bij de kat en de mens was baanbrekend.
    • in the year 1952 Hoogleraar in Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland.
  • He died on September 23, 1979, he was 93 years old.
  • A child of Hermanus Waardenburg and Virginie Emerentienne Idenburg
  • This information was last updated on October 24, 2018.

Household of Petrus Johannes Waardenburg

He is married to Alice Persijn.

They got married on November 7, 1913 at Arnhem, Gelderland, Nederland, he was 27 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Petrus Johannes Waardenburg

Petrus Johannes Waardenburg
1886-1979

1913

Alice Persijn
1891-1981


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Birthday June 3, 1886

  • The temperature on June 3, 1886 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
  • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1886: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 4.5 million citizens.
    • January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
    • March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
    • April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
    • May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
    • July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
    • August 31 » The 7.0 Mw  Charleston earthquake affects southeastern South Carolina with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Sixty people killed with damage estimated at $5–6 million.

Day of marriage November 7, 1913

  • The temperature on November 7, 1913 was between 3.6 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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 February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1913: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.1 million citizens.
    • January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
    • February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
    • April 8 » The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
    • June 24 » Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
    • December 1 » Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
    • December 14 » Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

Day of death September 23, 1979

  • The temperature on September 23, 1979 was between 1.8 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1979: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
    • March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
    • March 26 » Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
    • May 30 » Downeast Flight 46 crashes on approach to Knox County Regional Airport in Rockland, Maine, killing 17.
    • July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
    • October 17 » Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
    • December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.


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