About Theo Rasing
Born 1953. Theo Rasing is a Dutch physicist and university teacher.
Theodorus "Theo" Henricus Maria Rasing (born 26 May 1953) is a Dutch professor of experimental physics at Radboud University Nijmegen. His expertise lies in the field of magneto-optics. He was a winner of the 2008 Spinoza Prize.
Career Rasing was born on 26 May 1953 in Didam. In 2013 Rasing won a 2,5 million euro Advanced Grant by the European Research Council for a research proposal titled 'magnetisation at its fastest'.
Rasing was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. In the same year he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. Rasing was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 2013.
In February 2015 the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant listed Rasing second on a list of funds obtained by researchers.
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Who is Theo Rasing?
Dutch physicist and university teacher
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Theo Rasing was born on 26 May 1953 in Didam.
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Theo Rasing is a physicist and university teacher.
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