Utrecht University
Latin: 'Universitas Rheno-Traiectina or Universitas Ultraiectina'
Motto	Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos (Sun of Justice, shine upon us)
Established	1636
Type	Public, general
Rector	Willem Hendrik Gispen
Faculty	8,224
Students	26,787
Location	Utrecht, The Netherlands
Website	www.uu.nl

Utrecht University (Universiteit Utrecht in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands. It is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe. It is rated as the seventh best University in Europe[1] in the Academic Ranking of World Universities. Established March 26, 1636, it had an enrollment of 26,787 students in 2004, and employed 8,224 faculty and staff, 570 of which are full professors. In 2004, 358 Ph.D. degrees were awarded and 7,010 scientific articles were published. The 2004 budget of the university was €653 million. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Motto (disambiguation). ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... Year 1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The word rector (ruler, from the Latin regere) has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate someone who is in charge of something. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Utrecht ( (help· info)) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Utrecht ( (help· info)) is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht. ... Motto: Je Maintiendrai (Dutch: Ik zal handhaven, English: I Shall Uphold) Anthem: Wilhelmus van Nassouwe Capital Amsterdam1 Largest city Amsterdam Official language(s) Dutch2 Government Parliamentary democracy Constitutional monarchy  - Queen Beatrix  - Prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende Independence Eighty Years War   - Declared July 26, 1581   - Recognised January 30, 1648 (by Spain... For the community in Florida, see University, Florida. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... // One of the well known rankings, THES - QS publishes an annual report about world rankings. ... March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1636 (MDCXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ...

The university's motto is "Sol Iustitiae Illustra Nos", which means "Sun of Justice, shine upon us".

Utrecht University is led by the University Board, consisting of Yvonne van Rooy (president), prof.dr. Willem Hendrik Gispen (rector magnificus) and Hans Amman.

The university consists of seven faculties: A faculty is a division within a university. ...

• Faculty of Humanities
  • Department of Arts
  • Department of Theology
  • Department of Philosophy
• Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
• Faculty of Law, Economics and Governance
• Faculty of Geosciences
• Faculty of Medicine
• Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
• Faculty of Science
  • Department of Biology
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Department of Information and Computing Sciences
  • Department of Mathematics
  • Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
  • Department of Physics and Astronomy

There are three interfaculty units: For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... The Arts is a broad subdivision of culture, comprised of many expressive disciplines. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... The social sciences are a group of academic disciplines that study human aspects of the world. ... Behavioural sciences (or Behavioral science) is a term that encompasses all the disciplines that explore the activities of and interactions among organisms in the natural world. ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... Face-to-face trading interactions on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor. ... Earth science (also known as geoscience, the geosciences or the Earth Sciences), is an all-embracing term for the sciences related to the planet Earth. ... For the chemical substances known as medicines, see medication. ... Veterinary medicine is the application of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. ... Part of a scientific laboratory at the University of Cologne. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology (from Greek: βίος, bio, life; and λόγος, logos, knowledge), also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method. ... For other uses, see Chemistry (disambiguation). ... Not to be confused with informatics or information theory. ... Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems. ... For other meanings of mathematics or uses of math and maths, see Mathematics (disambiguation) and Math (disambiguation). ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... For other uses, see Astronomy (disambiguation). ...

• University College / Roosevelt Academy
• Ethics Institute
• IVLOS Institute of Education

The two large faculties of Humanities and Law are situated in the inner city of Utrecht. The other five faculties, as well as most of the administrative services, are located in De Uithof, a campus area in the outskirts of the city. University College is situated in the former Kromhout Kazerne, which used to be a Dutch military base. University College Utrecht campus University College Utrecht (UCU) is an international Honors College of Utrecht University (UU). ... Roosevelt Academy is a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. ... For other uses, see Humanities (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Law (disambiguation). ... De Uithof is the campus area of the Utrecht University and the University of Professional Education Utrecht. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ...

Notable alumni

Universiteit Utrecht counts a number of distinguished scholars among its alumni and faculty, including several Nobel Prize laureates: An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ), as designated in Alfred Nobels will in 1895, are awarded for physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. ...

• C.H.D. Buys Ballot (meteorologist)
• Clarence Barlow (composer)
• Nicolaas Bloembergen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Arend-Jan Boekestein (Historian, Politician)
• Els Borst (former Dutch minister of Health)
• James Boswell (author, lawyer)
• Pieter Burmann the Younger (philologist)
• Michael Clyne (linguist)
• David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes, (author, lawyer)
• Peter Debye (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• René Descartes (philosopher)
• Frans de Waal (zoologist and ethologist)
• Christiaan Eijkman (physician, pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Willem Einthoven (physician, physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Georg Graevius (scholar)
• Louis Grondijs (Byzantologist, War Correspondent)
• Gerardus 't Hooft (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• J. H. van 't Hoff (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Jacobus Kapteyn (astronomer)
• Tjalling Charles Koopmans (mathematician, physicist, economist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Aristid Lindenmayer (biologist)
• Jack van Lint (mathematician)
• Rudolf Magnus (pharmacologist and physiologist)
• Marcel Minnaert (astronomer)
• Heiko Oberman (historian)
• Mark Overmars (Computer Scientist)
• Abraham Pais (physicist, science historian)
• Ben de Pater (Leading cultural geographer)
• Perizonius (scholar)
• Wilhelm Röntgen (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Lavoslav Ruzicka (chemist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (physician, scientist)
• Jan Hendrik Scholten (theologian)
• Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (statesman)
• Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate (poet)
• Jan Terlouw (politician, novelist)
• Martinus J.G. Veltman (physicist, Nobel Prize laureate)
• Hugh Williamson (politician)
• J. Slauerhoff (poet, novelist) worked as an assistant at the University's clinic for Dermatology and Venereal Diseases from 1929-1930.

C.H.D. Buys Ballot Christophorus Henricus Diedericus Buys Ballot (also Christoph Heinrich Diedrich Buys Ballot) (October 10, 1817-February 3, 1890) Dutch chemist and meteorologist after whom Buys-Ballots law and the Buys Ballot table are called. ... Meteorology is the scientific study of the atmosphere that focuses on weather processes and forecasting. ... Clarence Barlow (born December 27, 1945) is a composer of classical and electroacoustic works. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Nicolaas Bloembergen (born Dordrecht, March 11, 1920) is a Dutch physicist. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      A politician is an individual who is a formally recognized and active member of a government, or a person who influences the way a society is governed through an understanding of political power and group dynamics. ... Prof. ... 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Johann Georg Graevius (properly Guava or Greffe) (January 29, 1632 - January 11, 1703), German classical scholar and critic, was born at Naumburg, Saxony. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline, perhaps receiving financial support through a scholarship. ... Lodewijk Hermen Grondijs was born in 1878 in the Dutch East-Indies, now known as Indonesia, where he spent most of his youth and graduated in 1896 from grammar school. ... A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone. ... Gerard t Hooft at Harvard University Gerardus (Gerard) t Hooft [ut-hooft] (The prefix ’t is pronounced as ‘ut’ and stands for ‘het’) (born July 5, 1946) is a professor in theoretical physics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Jacobus Henricus van t Hoff (August 30, 1852 - March 1, 1911) was a Dutch physical and organic chemist and the winner of the inaugural Nobel Prize in Chemistry. ... A chemist pours from a round-bottom flask. ... Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn, (January 19, 1851 – June 18, 1922) was a Dutch astronomer, best known for his extensive studies of the Milky Way and as the first discoverer of evidence for galactic rotation. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Tjalling Charles Koopmans (s-Graveland, August 28, 1910 – New Haven, February 26, 1985) was the joint winner, with Leonid Kantorovich, of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Economics. ... Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... Alan Greenspan, former chairman, United States Federal Reserve. ... Aristid Lindenmayer (November 17, 1925 _ 1989) was a Hungarian biologist. ... A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of organisms. ... Jacobus Hendricus (Jack) van Lint (1 September 1932, Bandoeng – 28 September 2004) was a Dutch mathematician, professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, of which he was rector magnificus from 1991 till 1996. ... Leonhard Euler, considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study and research is the field of mathematics. ... Rudolf Magnus (Brunswick, September 2, 1873 — Switzerland, 1927), was a German pharmacologist and physiologist. ... Pharmacology (in Greek: pharmacon is drug, and logos is science) is the study of how chemical substances interfere with living systems. ... Physiology (in Greek physis = nature and logos = word) is the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of living organisms. ... Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert (February 12, 1893 – October 26, 1970) was a Belgian astronomer. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a person whose area of interest is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Heiko Oberman Heiko A. Oberman (1930-2001) was a historian and theologian who specialized in the study of the Reformation. ... This article is about the occupation of studying history. ... Prof Dr. Mark H. Overmars (born 29 September 1958) is a Dutch programmer and teacher of programming (particularly of games). ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... Abraham (Bram) Pais (May 19, 1918, Amsterdam, The Netherlands — July 28, 2000, Copenhagen, Denmark) was a Dutch-born American physicist and science historian. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... The history of science and technology (HST) is a field of history which examines how humanitys understanding of science and technology has changed over the millennia. ... Perizonius (or Accinctus) was the name of Jakob Voorbroek (October 26, 1651 - April 6, 1715), a Dutch classical scholar, who was born at Appingedam in Groningen. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline, perhaps receiving financial support through a scholarship. ... Wilhelm Röntgen Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (March 27, 1845 – February 10, 1923) was a German physicist, of the University of Würzburg, who, on November 8, 1895, produced wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation that are now known as x-rays or Röntgen Rays. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... 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Year 1930 (MCMXXX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display 1930 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

See also

• University of Professional Education Utrecht (HU - Hogeschool Utrecht)
• Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht)
• University College Utrecht (UCU) International Honors College of Utrecht University
• Roosevelt Academy (RA) International Honors College of Utrecht University located in Middelburg, Zeeland

The University of Professional Education (HU - Hogeschool Utrecht Dutch) is one of the higher education institution located in the town of Utrecht (city). ... The Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU - Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht Dutch) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in Utrecht, in the Netherlands. ... University College Utrecht campus University College Utrecht (UCU) is an international Honors College of Utrecht University (UU). ... Roosevelt Academy is a small liberal arts college located in Middelburg in the Netherlands. ...

External links

• Utrecht University WWW page