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Jacob van der Hoeden

Jacob van der Hoeden is a biology topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jacob van der Hoeden rather than just read about it. In short: Jacob van der Hoeden (Hebrew: יעקב ואן דר הודן; 27 July 1891 in Utrecht – 1 February 1968) was a Dutch-born Israeli veterinary research scientist. Biography Jacob (Jaap) Van der Hoeden was born into a Jewish family in the Netherlands in 1891.

Key takeaways

Jacob van der Hoeden belongs to biology; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Jacob van der Hoeden to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Jacob van der Hoeden from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Jacob van der Hoeden (Hebrew: יעקב ואן דר הודן; 27 July 1891 in Utrecht – 1 February 1968) was a Dutch-born Israeli veterinary research scientist.

Biography Jacob (Jaap) Van der Hoeden was born into a Jewish family in the Netherlands in 1891. He completed his doctorate in 1921. Van der Hoeden, together with his four children, survived the Holocaust thanks to the help of Dutch Christians who hid the family in various places. However, his wife died of illness prior to the end of World War II.

Veterinary career Van der Hoeden served from 1924 to 1929 as a senior researcher at the Dutch national public health institute and a professor of veterinary medicine at Utrecht University. In 1929, he was appointed to head the university's hospital laboratories and, in 1932, was elected to the Dutch Society for Natural Sciences. He became a leading authority on diseases that pass from animals to humans. In 1948, the Minister of Agriculture in the interim government of the State of Israel invited van der Hoeden to establish the Veterinary Institute in Israel. In 1955, he moved to the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona, where he worked until his retirement in 1966. Van der Hoeden died in 1968 in Israel.

Awards and recognition In 1961, van der Hoeden was awarded the Israel Prize, in agriculture. In 1961, he was awarded the Zimmerman Prize.

See also List of Israel Prize recipients

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jacob van der Hoeden

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jacob van der Hoeden claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In biology, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jacob van der Hoeden before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jacob van der Hoeden ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jacob van der Hoeden

In research: Jacob van der Hoeden appears in biology research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jacob van der Hoeden in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jacob van der Hoeden is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1891 births, 1968 deaths, 20th-century Dutch biologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jacob van der Hoeden outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

What is Jacob van der Hoeden in simple terms?

Jacob van der Hoeden (Hebrew: יעקב ואן דר הודן; 27 July 1891 in Utrecht – 1 February 1968) was a Dutch-born Israeli veterinary research scientist. Biography Jacob (Jaap) Van der Hoeden was born into a Jewish family in the Netherlands in 1891.

Why does Jacob van der Hoeden matter?

Because it connects several biology ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Jacob van der Hoeden?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Jacob van der Hoeden.