1. Dick Frans Swaab was born on 17 December 1944 and is a Dutch physician and neurobiologist.
11 Facts About Dick Swaab
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Dick Swaab is a professor of neurobiology at the University of Amsterdam and was until 2005 Director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Dick Swaab received his doctorate of medicine at the University of Amsterdam in 1968, and his Ph.
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Dick Swaab was from 1978 the director of the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research.
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Dick Swaab consistently defends his studies in the face of such criticism.
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Dick Swaab has numerous scientific awards and was mentor of 84 Ph.
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Dick Swaab is editor of several journals about brain research.
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Dick Swaab has an H-index of 135 as of 2023, having been cited over 34,000 times.
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Dick Swaab is a member, honorary member, and founder of many scientific and professional associations.
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Dick Swaab was the second person to be awarded the Emil Kraepelin Guest Professorship at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, in 1996, and is a visiting professor in three locations in China, and at Stanford University, United States.
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Dick Swaab has been decorated with the Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, a high order of chivalry of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.