Leiden University marked its 450th anniversary with a grand celebration in the Pieterskerk, featuring honorary doctorates, ...

The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob ...

Over 1,000 women ended up in a Dutch state workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Commissioned by Leiden University, the architecture firm De Zwarte Hond completed the renovation and extension of the former Cluster Zuid building of the Faculty of Humanities. Architect Joop van ...

In the late 1970s, architect Joop van Stigt designed a building for the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University.

Scientists from Leiden University and the SLAC National Laboratory have finally uncovered why platinum electrodes corrode under certain conditions, a problem that has puzzled researchers for decades.

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