About Floris Cohen
Born 1946. Floris Cohen is a Dutch historian, university teacher and historian of science.
Hendrik Floris Cohen (born 1 July 1946) is a Dutch historian of science.
Life Hendrik Floris Cohen was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, on 1 July 1946. He studied history at the University of Leiden, receiving a Ph.D. in 1974. He is a professor in the Comparative History of Science at the University of Utrecht. Cohen is the brother of the politician Job Cohen and son of the historian (1913–2004). is his grandfather.
In 2008, Cohen was awarded the Dutch "Eureka" prize for the best book of the year that makes science accessible to a wide audience.
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Dutch historian
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Floris Cohen was born on 1 July 1946 in Haarlem.
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Floris Cohen is a historian, university teacher and historian of science.
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