Nicolaas Tates
Nicolaas Tates( born May 5, 1915 – December 25, 1990) was a Dutch canoeist who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.
He was born and died in Zaandam.
In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the folding K-2 1000 metre competition with his partner Wim van der Kroft.
René van der Linden
Pierre René Hubert Marie" Rene" van der Linden( born 14 December 1943) is a retired Dutch politician and diplomat of the Catholic People's Party( KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal( CDA) party and economist.
Van der Linden applied at the Catholic University Brabant in June 1964 majoring in Economics and obtaining an Bachelor of Economics degree in June 1966 and worked as student researcher before graduating with an Master of Economics degree in July 1970.
Van der Linden worked as a economics teacher in Tilburg from April 1969 until July 1971.
Van der Linden worked as a civil servant for the department of Food Quality of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries from July 1971 until January 1973 and served as Chief of staff for the European Commissioner of the Netherlands from January 1973 until January 1977 serving under Pierre Lardinois from January 1973 until January 1977 and for Henk Vredeling from January 1977 until June 1977.
Van der Linden was elected as a Member of the House of Representatives after the election of 1977, taking office on 8 June 1977 serving as a frontbencher and spokesperson for European Affairs and Agriculture and deputy spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Benelux.
After the election of 1986 Van der Linden was appointed as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the Cabinet Lubbers II, taking office on 14 July 1986.
On 9 September 1988 Van der Linden resigned following the conclusions of a report into a passport fraud investigation that was mishandled by his predecessor as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs Wim van Eekelen who was then serving as Minister of Defence and who had resigned four days earlier on 6 September 1988.
Van der Linden returned as a Member of the House of Representatives following the appointment of Jeltien Kraaijeveld- Wouters as Mayor of Hilversum, taking office on 29 November 1988 serving again as a frontbencher chairing the and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs, European Affairs, Agriculture and Benelux.
In December 1997 Van der Linden announced that he would n't stand for the election of 1998 and continued to serve until the end of the parliamentary term on 19 May 1998.
Van der Linden remained in active in national politics, he was elected as a Member of the Senate after the Senate election of 1999, taking office on 8 June 1999 serving as a frontbencher chairing the and spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and deputy spokesperson for Agriculture and Benelux.
Van der Linden also served as President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from 1 January 2005 until 1 January 2008.
Van der Linden also became active in the private sector and public sector and occupied numerous seats as a corporate director and nonprofit director on several boards of directors and supervisory boards( Atlantic Association, Robeco, Oxfam Novib, Trilateral Commission,, Van Lanschot and Institute of International Relations Clingendael).
Van der Linden also worked as a trade association executive for the Industry and Employers confederation( VNO- NCW) and as a education administrator for the Maastricht School of Management serving as Chairman of the Education board from October 1999 until November 2016.
Van der Linden was nominated as President of the Senate following the appointed of Yvonne Timmerman- Buck as a Member of the Council of State, serving from 6 October 2009 until 28 June 2011.
In November 2014 Van der Linden announced that he would n't stand for the Senate election of 2015 and continued to serve until the end of the parliamentary term on 9 June 2015.
Wim van Krimpen
Wim van Krimpen( born in Groningen on 2 March 1941) is a Dutch art historian, art dealer and gallery owner of Galerie Wim van Krimpen, and art gallery director.
He was director at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden and the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in The Hague.
Wim Van Eynde
Wim Van Eynde( born 24 July 1960) is a Belgian former racing cyclist.
He rode in four editions of the Tour de France.
Tilly van der Zwaard
Tilly van der Zwaard( 18 January 1938 – 6 February 2019) was a middle distance runner from the Netherlands.
At the 1962 European Athletics Championships in Belgrade she won a bronze medal in the 400 m event, behind Maria Itkina of the Soviet Union and Joy Grieveson of Great Britain.
Van der Zwaard twice represented her native country in the 400 m event at the Summer Olympics, in 1964 and 1968.
Her best achievement was sixth place in 1964.
She was born Mathilda Catrina van der Zwaard.
On 25 November 1964 she married Ger van der Made and changed her name to van der Made -van der Zwaard.
After divorce she dropped van der Made from her name.
She died in February 2019.
Wim van der Voort
Willem" Wim" van der Voort( 24 March 1923 – 23 October 2016) was a Dutch speed skater.
At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Van der Voort was the silver medalist in the men's 1500 meters, finishing 0.2 seconds behind Hjalmar Andersen of Norway.
He received a bronze medal at the 1953 World Allround Championships, and silver medals at the 1951 and 1953 European Championships.
Wim van der Veen
Wim van der Veen from the Netherlands, is a Tenpin bowler.
He finished in 24th position at the 2006 AMF World Cup and played in the 2006 World Tenpin Masters.
Van der Veen is not related to Auke van der Veen, a Dutch TV host.
Wim van der Eijk
Wim van der Eijk( born ca. 1957) is a Dutch civil servant, who held the positions of Vice- President of the European Patent Office( EPO), head of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, known as DG3( Directorate- General, 3, Appeals), and Chairman of the EPO Enlarged Board of Appeal from December 2011 to November 2016.
Previously, he held positions at the Netherlands Patent Office and in the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands, he served as an honorary judge at the District Court of The Hague, and he was Principal Director of Patent Law and Multilateral Affairs at the EPO.
Johannes Diderik van der Waals
Johannes Diderik van der Waals (23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on an equation of state for gases and liquids.
His name is primarily associated with the van der Waals equation of state that describes the behavior of gases and their condensation to the liquid phase.
His name is also associated with van der Waals forces (forces between stable molecules), with van der Waals molecules (small molecular clusters bound by van der Waals forces), and with van der Waals radii (sizes of molecules).
As James Clerk Maxwell said about Van der Waals, "there can be no doubt that the name of Van der Waals will soon be among the foremost in molecular science."
In his 1873 thesis, van der Waals noted the non-ideality of real gases and attributed it to the existence of intermolecular interactions.
He introduced the first equation of state derived by the assumption of a finite volume occupied by the constituent molecules.
Spearheaded by Ernst Mach and Wilhelm Ostwald, a strong philosophical current that denied the existence of molecules arose towards the end of the 19th century.
The molecular existence was considered unproven and the molecular hypothesis unnecessary.
At the time van der Waals' thesis was written (1873), the molecular structure of fluids had not been accepted by most physicists, and liquid and vapor were often considered as chemically distinct.
But van der Waals's work affirmed the reality of molecules and allowed an assessment of their size and attractive strength.
His new formula revolutionized the study of equations of state.
By comparing his equation of state with experimental data, Van der Waals was able to obtain estimates for the actual size of molecules and the strength of their mutual attraction.
The effect of Van der Waals's work on molecular physics in the 20th century was direct and fundamental.
By introducing parameters characterizing molecular size and attraction in constructing his equation of state, Van der Waals set the tone for modern molecular science.
That molecular aspects such as size, shape, attraction, and multipolar interactions should form the basis for mathematical formulations of the thermodynamic and transport properties of fluids is presently considered an axiom.
With the help of the van der Waals's equation of state, the critical-point parameters of gases could be accurately predicted from thermodynamic measurements made at much higher temperatures.
Nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, and helium subsequently succumbed to liquefaction.
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes was significantly influenced by the pioneering work of van der Waals.
In 1908, Onnes became the first to make liquid helium; this led directly to his 1911 discovery of superconductivity.
Van der Waals started his career as a school teacher.
He became the first physics professor of the University of Amsterdam when in 1877 the old Athenaeum was upgraded to Municipal University.
Van der Waals won the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
Sandra Leiblum
Sandra Risa Leiblum( 1943–2010) was an American author, lecturer, and researcher in sexology.

Question: Did Wim Van Der Eijk and Sandra Leiblum share the same nationality?
Answer: no