Robbert Dijkgraaf
Robertus Henricus "Robbert" Dijkgraaf, is a Dutch theoretical physicist, mathematician and string theorist and former politician. He served as the Minister of Education, Culture and Science in the Netherlands from 2022 until 2024. From July 2012 until his inauguration as a minister, he had been the director and Leon Levy professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a tenured professor at the University of Amsterdam.
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- Born in
- Ridderkerk
- Educated at
- Utrecht UniversityGerrit Rietveld AcademieGymnasium Erasmianum
- Awards
- 🏆 Spinoza Prize🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau🏆 honorary doctorate of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel🏆 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Gerard 't Hooft
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Christoph Schweigert
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1960
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