Leo Vroman
Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator.
Leo Vroman
![Collectie / Archief: Fotocollectie Anefo Reportage / Serie: Dichter en bioloog Leo Vroman, kop Datum: 17 november 1983 Trefwoorden: biologie, dichters, portretten Persoonsnaam: Vroman, Leo Fotograaf: Bogaerts, Rob / Anefo, [onbekend] Auteursrechthebbende: Nationaal Archief Materiaalsoort: Negatief (zwart/wit) Nummer archiefinventaris: bekijk toegang 2.24.01.05 Bestanddeelnummer: 932-779](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Nationaal_Archief%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-7795.jpg/1280px-Nationaal_Archief%2C_Bestanddeelnr_932-7795.jpg)
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- Born
- 1915. · Gouda.
- Died
- 2014. · Fort Worth.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands and United States.
- Occupation
- poet, playwright, writer, biologist, painter, autobiographer, hematologist and illustrator.
- Fields
- young adult literature.
- Education
- Utrecht University.
- Known for
- Psalmen en andere gedichten.
- Honours
- P.C. Hooft Award, Prijs van de Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet, Poetry Prize of the Municipality of Amsterdam, Herman Gorterprijs and Akademiepenning.
- Languages
- Dutch.
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Leo Vroman (April 10, 1915 – February 22, 2014) was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator.
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Life and work
Life and work
Leo Vroman studied at Utrecht University. The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is young adult literature. Works named in the authority record are Psalmen en andere gedichten. Work by Leo Vroman is recorded in the collections of CODA Museum, Museum Gouda and Literature Museum. Distinctions recorded are P.C. Hooft Award, Prijs van de Stichting Kunstenaarsverzet, Poetry Prize of the Municipality of Amsterdam and Herman Gorterprijs.
Vroman, who was Jewish, was born in Gouda and studied biology in Utrecht. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, he fled to London, and from there he traveled to the Dutch East Indies. He finished his studies in Batavia. After the Japanese occupied Indonesia he was interned and stayed in several prisoner-of-war camps. In the camp Tjimahi he befriended the authors Tjalie Robinson and Rob Nieuwenhuys. His uncle was the physician and medical researcher Isidore Snapper, who worked in New York City after emigrating from the Netherlands. (The mathematician Ernst Snapper was Vroman;s cousin.) After the war, Vroman went to the United States to work in New York as a hematology researcher. He gained American citizenship and lived in Fort Worth until his death in 2014, aged 98. In 1946, he published his first poems in the Netherlands, and since then has won almost every Dutch literary poetry prize possible. In 1970 Vroman was awarded the Individual Science Award by Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. In 2003, his former high school, de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap (GSG), changed its name into de Goudse ScholenGemeenschap Leo Vroman (GSG Leo Vroman). He was engaged to Georgine Marie Sanders from May 1940 until their marriage in September 1947. They had two daughters. Dr. Vroman's list of accomplishments include winning nearly every Dutch literary award for poetry; having illustrations and drawings that hang in Dutch museums; a scientific output that includes 69 research papers, many of them published in Elsevier journals; and a discovery named after him: the Vroman Effect. He has also published 60 books, 40 of them on poetry....In the US, Vroman worked as a researcher at various institutes, including the American Museum of Natural History, The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, the US Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Brooklyn, and Columbia University. While at Mount Sinai, he conducted research that enabled him to receive his PhD in physiology from Utrecht University.
In English
In English
Poems in English (1953) Just one more world (poems and photographs) (1976) Love, greatly enlarged (1992)
Scientific work
Scientific work
E.g., Surface contact and thromboplastin formation (PhD Thesis, University of Utrecht) (1958). Blood, Garden City, N.Y.: Published for the American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Press, 1967. with Edward F Leonard: The Behavior of blood and its components at interfaces, Columbia University Seminar on Biomaterials, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, 1977. Vol. 283 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences with Edward F Leonard and Vincent T Turitto: Blood in contact with natural and artificial surfaces, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y., 1987. Vol. 516 in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Leo Vroman
Rob Bogaerts for Anefo · Nationaal Archief Fotocollectie Anefo Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Rijksfotoarchief: Fotocollectie Algemeen Nederlands Fotopersbureau (ANEFO), 1945-1989 - negatiefstroken zwart/wit, nummer toegang 2.2

Informatieborden over het kunstwerk Leo vroman op De Chocoladefabriek, nu Bibliotheek Gouda, in het Vromanpark, aan Klein Amerika in Gouda.
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Life and career
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1915
Leo Vroman born at Gouda.
2014
Leo Vroman died at Fort Worth.
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Gouda.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4355992: Leo Vroman
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- “Leo Vroman”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
- Vroman, Leo (1915–2014), the Netherlands. Physiology, The Arts of Eminent Scientists, 2026
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authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 16207682-4, 75th Birthday Symposium of Leo Vroman (1990 : Gouda).
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Vroman, Leo (1915–2014), the Netherlands. Physiology, The Arts of Eminent Scientists, 2026Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 16207682-4, 75th Birthday Symposium of Leo Vroman (1990 : Gouda).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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