Ad Stouthamer
Adriaan Hendrik "Ad" Stouthamer is a Dutch microbiologist. He was a professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam from the 1960s to 1996.Life
Stouthamer was born on 31 October 1931 in Sas van Gent. In 1960 he obtained his doctorate at Utrecht University under Klaas Winkler with a thesis titled: "Koolhydraatstofwisseling van de azijnzuurbacteriën". In 1963 he became lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He gave his inaugural lecture as professor in 1968. From 1992 to 1995 he had a special teaching assignment in applied microbiology. He retired in autumn 1996 and was succeeded in his chair by Hans Westerhoff.
Stouthamer was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974. In 1991 he gave the Kluyver lecture at the Royal Netherlands Association for Microbiology.
