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===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]].
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