Science in the Netherlands

A 14th-century church holds a unique monument to a German mathematician who dedicated his life to calculating the value of pi.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

The world's first transgenic bovine has been preserved at the museum where he spent his final years—though his old stable is now a cafe.

Preserving the research tools, unexpected inventions, and odd collections of generations of college professors.

The house of physicists Paul Ehrenfest was also a temporary dwelling and study for his good friend Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein would often sit in this chair during visits to the observatory to discuss science with Willem de Sitter.

This functional solar system model was inspired by the famous Eisinga Planetarium.

For over 100 years the most important physicists in the world have autographed this university wall.

A plaque hidden in the law faculty at Leiden University honors the first scientist to make liquid helium.

The last of Amsterdam's original sea level markers remaining in place.

The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.

A nuclear reactor created for Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" campaign is now used for research at a Dutch university.

Once the world's biggest telescope, it was later used as a coat hanger by a famous Dutch astronomer.

Science meets wall art to highlight the beauty of famous mathematical equations.

One of the great math minds of the 17th century is underfoot in this 900 year old Dutch church.

A UFO-shaped event building originally intended to be a science museum showcasing the future.