Reijer Hooykaas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Reijer Hooykaas

Dutch historian

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1906

Place of Birth: Schoonhoven, South Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 04-Jan-1994

Profession: physicist, historian, university teacher

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Reijer Hooykaas (1 August 1906 in Schoonhoven – 4 January 1994 in Zeist) was a Dutch historian of science.
He along with Eduard Jan Dijksterhuis were pioneers in professionalizing the history of science in the Netherlands.
Hooykaas gave the prestigious Gifford Lectures at St.
Andrews in 1975-77.
H.
Floris Cohen dedicated his historiographical text The Scientific Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 1994) to Hooykaas; its section on religion deals primarily with Hooykaas.