Editing Delft University of Technology (section)

==People==

===Students===
The majority of TU Delft's students are male. In 2021, among all students of the university ([[MSc]] and [[BSc]] level) 30% were women. The biggest imbalance between men and women is seen in the [[Mechanical engineering]] faculty, while the smallest is seen at [[Industrial Design]] and [[Architecture]] departments.<ref name="Student Population">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures/education/student-population/|title=Student Population|publisher=TU Delft|access-date=2018-02-28|archive-date=2020-02-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218091635/https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures/education/student-population/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Despite many efforts of the university to change that imbalance, the number of women studying at TU Delft has stayed relatively constant over the years.<ref name="Student Population"/>

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|+ ''TU Delft student body demographics''<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2023-08-01 |title=Facts and Figures |url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures |access-date=2023-08-08 |website=tudelft.nl |publisher=Delft University of Technology}}</ref>

! !! 2009 
!2022
|-
! [[PhD]] Students (total)
| 2,027 
|3,144
|-
! [[PhD]] Students (men)
| 1,474 
|2,135
|-
! [[PhD]] Students (women)
| 547 
|1,007
|-
! MSc and BSc students (total)
| 16,427 
|26,658
|-
! MSc and BSc students (foreign)
| 2,236 
|6,821
|-
! MSc and BSc students (women)
| 3,351 
|8,248
|-
! BSc students (total)
| 10,857 
|13,782
|-
! MSc students (total)
| 5,524 
|12,876
|-
!Student Population
|18,454{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}
|27,080
|}

Since 2002, the number of students admitted to TU Delft has increased rapidly (from approximately 2,200 in 2002 to almost 3,700 in 2009).<ref name="Student Intake">{{Cite web|url=https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures/education/student-intake/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180301044542/https://www.tudelft.nl/en/about-tu-delft/facts-and-figures/education/student-intake/|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 1, 2018|title=Student Intake|publisher=TU Delft|access-date=2018-02-28}}</ref> The same applies to the total student population (from approximately 13,250 in 2002 to almost 16,500 in 2009).<ref name="Student Intake"/> In 2022, nearly 27 thousand students were enrolled.<ref name=":0" />

The number of international students has also increased steadily.<ref name="Student Intake" /> In 2021, 29% of all students at TU Delft came from abroad; nearly three quarters of those came from Europe.<ref>{{Cite news |last=HOP |date=2021-11-04 |title=Another record number of university students |work=TU Delta |url=https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/opnieuw-recordaantal-universitaire-studenten |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref> The largest proportion of international students at TU Delft in 2022 come from China (14%), followed by India (11.4%) and Belgium (7.4%). The faculties with the highest percentage number of international students study at [[Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology|Aerospace Engineering]] (46%) and [[Electrical Engineering|Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science]] (38%).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoger Onderwijs Persbureau |date=2022-02-08 |title=Universities continue to grow thanks to international students |work=TU Delta |url=https://www.delta.tudelft.nl/article/universities-continue-grow-thanks-international-students |access-date=2023-08-08}}</ref>

Due to TU Delft's presence, the city of Delft has one of the biggest populations of [[Persian people|Iranians]] in the Netherlands. It resulted in one of the biggest Iranian protests against the Iranian government in Europe,<ref name="Iranian activism in Delft">{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/06/AR2010090603110.html|title= Dutch town of Delft is center of a new Iranian activism|author=Thomas Erdbrink|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=19 September 2010|date=7 September 2010}}</ref> with many protests organized at TU Delft campus by Iranian TU Delft students during [[2009 Iranian Election Protests]].

===Faculty===
{{Main|List of the Delft University of Technology Faculty}}

{{As of|2015|||post=,}} TU Delft is a home to 437 faculty, with more than 3,375 academic staff.<ref name="Facts and Figures 2015">{{cite web|url=https://issuu.com/tudelft-mediasolutions/docs/facts___figures_2015_digi|title=TU Delft – Facts & Figures 2015|date=10 November 2015 |publisher=TU Delft|access-date=2017-07-01}}</ref> The responsibility of TU Delft professors is lecturing, guiding undergraduate and graduate students, as well as performing original research in their respective fields.

Many notable people were TU Delft faculty. In science, [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], a 1913 [[Nobel Laureate]] in [[physics]], a discoverer of [[superconductivity]], was a former TU Delft faculty member, working as an assistant to [[Johannes Bosscha]]. Discoverer of the [[Prins reaction]] Hendrik Jacobus Prins, co-founders of [[Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica|National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science]] [[Hendrik Anthony Kramers]] and [[David van Dantzig]], developer of the [[Van Arkel–de Boer process|iodide process]] [[Jan Hendrik de Boer]], discoverer of the [[Spin (physics)|particle spin]] [[Ralph Kronig]], discoverer of the [[Einstein–de Haas effect]] [[Wander Johannes de Haas]] and discoverer of [[hafnium]] [[Dirk Coster]], all were at some point the faculty members of the university. Faculty members of Delft School of Microbiology were the founder of modern microbiology [[Martinus Beijerinck]] and the father of comparative microbiology [[Albert Kluyver]].

<gallery class="center" perrow="7">
File:Heike_Kamerlingh_Onnes,_1878.jpg|[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]],<br /> discoverer of [[superconductivity]], TU Delft faculty 1878-1882
File:Martinus_Beijerinck.png|[[Martinus Beijerinck]],<br /> father of [[virology]], TU Delft faculty 1895-1921
File:Ralph_de_Laer_Kronig.jpg|[[Ralph Kronig]],<br /> discoverer of [[Spin (physics)|particle spin]], TU Delft faculty 1939-1969
</gallery>

In engineering, the inventor of [[penthode]] and [[gyrator]] [[Bernard Tellegen]] and [[Balthasar van der Pol]] developer of [[Van der Pol oscillator]], were TU Delft faculty. Currently [[Vic Hayes]], and the father of [[Wi-Fi]], is affiliated with the [[Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management]]. [[STS-61A]] of the [[Space Shuttle Challenger]] crew member [[Wubbo Ockels]] was professor of [[Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology]]. TU Delft faculty geologist were [[Berend George Escher]], [[Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove]], discoverer of [[Bushveld complex]] [[Gustaaf Adolf Frederik Molengraaff]] and discoverer of gravity anomalies above the sea level [[Felix Andries Vening Meinesz]].

Since TU Delft is a home to a [[TU Delft Faculty of Architecture|major architecture school]] in the Netherlands, many important architects were a faculty of the university, including Hein de Haan, founder of [[Traditionalist School (architecture)|Traditionalist School]] in [[Architecture]] [[Marinus Jan Granpré Molière]], [[Bent Flyvbjerg]], co-founder of [[Mecanoo]] architects bureau [[Francine Houben]], co-founder of [[MVRDV]] architects bureau [[Winy Maas]] and [[Nathalie de Vries]], co-founder of [[Team 10]] [[Jacob B. Bakema]] and [[Aldo van Eyck]], as well as [[Herman Hertzberger]] and [[Jo Coenen]]. Some notable designers were faculty of TU Delft, including [[Paul Mijksenaar]], developer of visual information systems for [[John F. Kennedy International Airport|JFK]], [[LaGuardia Airport|LaGuardia]] and [[Schiphol]] airports.

Political figures that were faculty of TU Delft include former [[mayor of Lisbon]] [[Carmona Rodrigues]], former [[List of mayors of Sarajevo|mayor of Sarajevo]] Kemal Hanjalić, and the first Dutch prime minister of the Netherlands after [[World War II]] [[Wim Schermerhorn]].

===Notable alumni===
{{Main|List of the Delft University of Technology Alumni}}

Two TU Delft alumni were awarded Nobel Prize and one recipient has been affiliated with TU Delft: [[Jacobus van 't Hoff]] was awarded first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for his work with [[Solution (chemistry)|solution]]s. [[Simon van der Meer]] was awarded Nobel Prize in physics in 1984 for his work on [[stochastic cooling]] and one has been affiliated with TU Delft, [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] in 1913 for studies related to liquefaction of helium in the quest for the lowest temperature on Earth.

Some of the mathematicians include [[Jan Arnoldus Schouten]], contributor to the [[tensor calculus]]. Chemists and TU Delft alumni include [[Willem Alberda van Ekenstein]], Dutch chemist and discoverer of [[Lobry-de Bruyn-van Ekenstein transformation]]. TU Delft alumni and computer scientists include [[Adriaan van Wijngaarden]], developer of [[Van Wijngaarden grammar]] and co-designer of [[ALGOL]]. Famous TU Delft alumni electrical engineers include [[Jaap Haartsen]], developer of [[Bluetooth]].

Political figures that studied at TU Delft include [[Karien van Gennip]], Dutch secretary of state for economic affairs, [[Anton Mussert]], Dutch politician of World War II era and founder of [[National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands]], [[Abdul Qadeer Khan]], father of [[Nuclear power in Pakistan|Pakistan nuclear program]], and Dutch politician [[Wim Dik]]. Famous TU Delft alumni architects include [[Erick van Egeraat]], [[Herman Hertzberger]] and Hein de Haan. Dutch designers that graduated at TU Delft include [[Alexandre Horowitz]], designer of [[Philishave]], and [[Adrian van Hooydonk]], Dutch automobile designer and head of design at [[BMW]].

TU Delft alumni executives include [[Jeroen van der Veer]], former [[CEO]] of [[Shell plc|Royal Dutch Shell]], [[Ben van Beurden]] former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, [[Frits Philips]], fourth chairman of the board of directors of [[Philips]] and [[Gerard Philips]], co-founder of Philips. [[Laurens van den Acker]] is a Dutch automobile designer and the vice president of Renault Corporate Design.

Other interesting TU Delft alumni include [[Lodewijk van den Berg]], Dutch-American [[payload specialist]] on [[STS-51B]] mission and [[Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau]], member of the [[Dutch royal family]]. Other interesting figures that studied at TU Delft were mathematician [[Diederik Korteweg]], responsible for [[Korteweg–de Vries equation]], who studied at TU Delft before moving to [[University of Amsterdam]] and painter [[Maurits Cornelis Escher]] who studied at TU Delft for a year. [[Thomas Jan Stieltjes]], co-developer of [[Riemann–Stieltjes integral]] studied at TU Delft but never passed his final exams. The internationally renowned graphic designer and industrial designer [[Piet Zwart]] studied at the university 1913–1914.

TU Delft alumni who are currently a faculty of other universities include [[Wilhelmus Luxemburg]], Dutch mathematician and [[California Institute of Technology]] professor, as well as [[Walter Lewin]], Dutch physicist and former [[MIT]] professor, and [[Alexander van Oudenaarden]], Dutch biophysicist, a director of the Hubrecht Institute.

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File:Jacobus_Hendricus_van_%27t_Hoff.jpg|[[Jacobus van 't Hoff]],<br /> [[Nobel Prize]] in chemistry, TU Delft student 1869-1871
File:Gerard_philips.jpg|[[Gerard Philips]],<br /> cofounder of [[Philips]], TU Delft student 1876-1883
File:Lely-Havermans-kleur.jpg|[[Cornelis Lely]],<br /> head designer of [[Afsluitdijk]], TU Delft student 1871-1875
File:Ben van Beurden.jpg|[[Ben van Beurden]] former CEO of [[Royal Dutch Shell]], TU Delft student 1981-1983
</gallery>

====Honoris Causa Laureates====
In 1906 TU Delft obtained the right to award PhD degrees. This also marked the date since when the university was able to award [[honorary doctorates]]. Between 1906 and 2006 exactly 100 [[honoris causa]] degrees have been awarded. Honorary doctoral degrees are awarded to people that presented extraordinary contributions in their respective fields. Some of the most recognized recipients of TU Delft honorary doctorate include:
*[[Gerard Philips]] (1917), co-founder of [[Philips]] corporation,
*[[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]] (1918), winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] known for work on [[electromagnetic radiation]],
*[[Prince Bernhard]] (1951), prince of the Netherlands,
*[[John Douglas Cockcroft]] (1959), winner of Nobel Prize in Physics for work on atom splitting,
*[[Santiago Calatrava]] (1997) architect.