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[[Image:Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke.png|thumb|alt=Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke|Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke]]
'''Nicolaas Adrianus Rupke''' (* 22 January 1944, [[Rotterdam]]) is a Dutch historian of science, who began his academic career as a marine geologist.<ref name="Who is who entry">''Who is Who in the World 2011'' - 28th edition.</ref>
He studied biology and geology at the [[Groningen University|university of Groningen]] and geology and the history of science at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] and [[Oxford University|Oxford]]. When in 1977 he was elected to a [[Wolfson College, Oxford]] research position in the history of science, Rupke made this subject his full-time occupation. A series of similar international research posts followed, until in 1993 he took up a professorship at [[Göttingen University]] to teach the history of science and medicine.<ref name="Carreer1">"Die Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften als Lebensgeschichten", ''Jahrbuch der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen'', 2005, pp. 313-322. Autobiographical sketch in the Yearbook of Göttingen Academy on the occasion of Rupke's election as a member of the academy.</ref> In 2009, Rupke was awarded a Lower Saxony research chair.<ref name="Carreer2">www.uni-goettingen.de/de/108191.html. Press-release of the Lower Saxony Ministry of education about the "Niedersachsenprofessur 65+" (Lower Saxony research chair) 2009; [http://www.zeit.de/2009/31/C-Niedersachsenprofessur Interview] with [[Die Zeit]]</ref> In 2012, he took up an endowed professorship at [[Washington and Lee University]] in Lexington, Virginia, USA.
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