Jan Cornelis Terlouw (born November 15, 1931) is a Dutchscientist, politician, and author. November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... For the scientific journal named Science, see Science (journal). ... A politician is an individual involved in politics. ... The word author has several meanings: The author of a book, story, article or the like, is the person who has written it (or is writing it). ...
Jan Terlouw was born in Kamperveen. After high school, Terlouw studied mathematics and physics at Utrecht University. After graduating, he worked as a physics researcher in the Netherlands, the United States, and Sweden. After working for thirteen years, he became a politician, joining the Dutch Tweede Kamer (the second chamber of the Dutch legislature) as a member of the Democraten 66political party in 1967. Terlouw acted as party leader from 1973-1982. He also wrote various children's books, notably Winter in Wartime (1976) and How to Become King (1978). Terlouw is currently married and has four children. Kampen is a municipality and a city in the eastern Netherlands. ... Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. ... The Tweede Kamer (second chamber) is the lower house of the Staten-Generaal, the parliament in the Netherlands. ... A legislature is a governmental deliberative assembly with the power to adopt laws. ... Democraten 66 (D66), is a social liberal party in the Netherlands. ... A political party is a political organization that subscribes to a certain ideology and seeks to attain political power within a government. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
In the 1972 elections it was reduced to 6 seats, but in 1973 became part of a governing five party coalition.
After the even more disastrous provincial elections of 1974 under JanTerlouw, and a period under leadership of Maarten Engwirda, its fortunes were restored in 1986 when Hans van Mierlo once again became the top election candidate (lijsttrekker).
Terlouw tried to give the party a direction of its own as a "reasonable alternative", with attention to the environment, social questions and technology, Van Mierlo returned in the mid 1980s with his speech "A reason of existence".
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