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Cornelis Zitman was a Dutch physicist and professor at the University of Leiden. He was born in Leiden, Netherlands on 9 November 1926. He studied physics at the University of Leiden and obtained his PhD in 1954. He was a professor of physics at the University of Leiden from 1956 to 1991. He was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Physical Society. He was also a member of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. He was a pioneer in the field of nuclear physics and was the first to measure the energy of the neutron. He also developed a method for measuring the energy of gamma rays. He was the author of several books on nuclear physics and was awarded the prestigious Lorentz Medal in 1988. He died on 28 April 2016 at the age of 89. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and two grandchildren.

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Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 9 November 1926
Birthday 9 November
Birthplace Leiden, Netherlands
Date of death (2016-01-10) Caracas, Venezuela
Died Place Caracas, Venezuela
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1961

In 1961, Zitman traveled to Boston to participate in an exhibition of paintings and design. That same year he returned to the Netherlands with a desire to study smelting techniques. In 1964, he worked as a smelting apprentice to the sculptor Pieter Starreveld before returning definitively to Caracas, contracted by Central University of Venezuela as a professor of design. The following year, he began working more intensively in small format sculpture modeled directly in wax. In 1971, he exhibited for the first time at the Galerie Dina Vierny in Paris. From then on, he dedicated himself exclusively to sculpture. In the following years, he carried out various independent showings in Venezuela, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, the United States, Japan and other countries, earning various national and international awards. His works can be found in collections and museums of various countries, such as the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas in Venezuela, as well as in the Musée Maillol in Paris.

1951

Zitman settled in the city of Coro, where he found work as a technical draftsman for a construction company. In his free time, he painted and made his first incursions into the field of sculpture. Two years later he moved to Caracas, where he worked as a furniture designer at a factory of which he later became manager. In 1951, he received the National Sculpture Prize. He began teaching classes in design at Central University of Venezuela and continued drawing and painting. In 1958, he exhibited a collection of drawings and paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas. He then decided to abandon a life of business and moved to the island of Grenada, where he dedicated himself completely to painting and began to assert his style in sculpting.

Zitman also earned several awards, among them the National Sculpture Prize at the Hall of Plastic Arts in Caracas (1951), First Prize at the Sculpture Biennial of Budapest (1971), the Acquisition Prize of the Contemporary Art Museum of Caracas at the Biennial of Visual Arts (1981) and Special Prize in the 3rd Kotaro Takamura Grand Prize Exhibition at the Hakone Open-Air Museum outside of Tokyo (1982). In 2005, he was decorated with the Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.

1926

Cornelis Zitman (9 November 1926 – 10 January 2016) was a Dutch sculptor and draftsman.

Zitman was born to a family of construction workers in Leiden, the Netherlands in 1926. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague at the age of fifteen. On completing his studies in 1947, he refused compulsory military participation, as he disagreed with the Netherlands' political actions in Indonesia, and fled the country aboard a Swedish oil tanker that would take him to Venezuela.