Editing Leiden University (section)

==Rankings and reputation==
{{Infobox university rankings
| ARWU_W = 101-150 | ARWU_W_year = 2024 | ARWU_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2024|title=2024 Academic Ranking of World Universities|access-date=23 February 2025|publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}</ref>
| CWTS_W = 72 | CWTS_W_year = 2024 | CWTS_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.leidenranking.com/ranking/2024/list|title=CWTS Leiden Ranking 2024 – PP top 10%|access-date=23 February 2025|work=CWTS Leiden Ranking}}</ref>
| CWUR_W = 80 | CWUR_W_year = 2024 | CWUR_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://cwur.org/2024.php|title=CWUR – World University Rankings 2024|access-date=23 February 2025|work=Center for World University Rankings}}</ref>
| QS_W = =141| QS_W_year = 2025 | QS_W_ref = <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings|title=QS World University Rankings 2025|access-date=23 February 2025|publisher=Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd.}}</ref>
| Reuters_W =71 | Reuters_W_year = 2019 | Reuters_W_ref =<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/innovative-universities-2019|title=Reuters World's Top 100 Innovative Universities 2019|access-date=8 January 2021|work=Thomson Reuters}}</ref>
| THE_W = =73 | THE_W_year = 2025 | THE_W_ref = <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/world-ranking#!|title=World University Rankings 2025|access-date=23 February 2025|work=Times Higher Education (THE)|language=en}}</ref>
| USNWR_W = =56 | USNWR_W_year = 2024-25 | USNWR_W_ref = <ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings|title=2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings|access-date=23 February 2025|work=U.S. News & World Report}}</ref>
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| QS_W_Law = 24 | QS_W_Law_year = 2024 | QS_W_Law_ref =<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/law-legal-studies?page=1 |title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: Law & Legal Studies |work=Top Universities |access-date=27 September 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
|THE_W_Law=21 | THE_W_Law_year=2025 | THE_W_Law_ref=<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2024/subject-ranking/law|title=World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Law|work=THE|access-date=23 February 2025|language=en}}</ref>
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| ARWU_W_SOC= 27 | ARWU_W_SOC_year = 2024 |ARWU_W_SOC_ref=<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gras/2024/RS0512|title=2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects - Political Sciences|access-date=23 February 2025|publisher=Shanghai Ranking Consultancy}}</ref>
| QS_W_Arts = 45 | QS_W_Arts_year=2024 | QS_W_Arts_ref=<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/arts-humanities|title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: Arts and Humanities |work=QS|access-date=23 February 2025|language=en}}</ref>
| QS_W_Politics = 14 | QS_W_Politics_year=2024 | QS_W_Politics_ref=<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.topuniversities.com/university-subject-rankings/politics|title=QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024: Politics |work=QS|access-date=23 February 2025|language=en}}</ref>
| THE_W_Arts=21 | THE_W_Arts_year=2025 | THE_W_Arts_ref=<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2025/subject-ranking/arts-and-humanities|title=World University Rankings by Subject 2025: Arts and Humanities | work=THE | access-date=23 February 2025 | language=en}}</ref>
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===Notable alumni and professors===
{{Main|List of Leiden University people}}

Of the 107 [[Spinoza Prize]] laureates (the highest scientific award of The Netherlands), twenty-six were granted to professors of Leiden University. Literary historian [[Frits van Oostrom]] was the first professor of Leiden to be granted the Spinoza award for his work on developing the NLCM centre (Dutch literature and culture in the Middle Ages) into a top research centre. Other Spinoza Prize winners are linguists [[Frederik Kortlandt]] and Pieter Muysken, mathematician [[Hendrik Lenstra]], physicists [[Carlo Beenakker]], [[Jan Zaanen]], [[Dirk Bouwmeester]] and Michel Orrit, astronomers [[Ewine van Dishoeck]], [[Marijn Franx]] and [[Alexander Tielens]], transplantation biologist [[Els Goulmy]], clinical epidemiologist Frits Rosendaal, pedagogue [[Marinus van IJzendoorn]], archeologists [[Wil Roebroeks]] and [[Corinne Hofman]], neurologist [[Michel Ferrari]], classicist [[Ineke Sluiter]], social psychologist [[Naomi Ellemers]], statistician [[Aad van der Vaart]], cognitive psychologist [[Eveline Crone]], organisation psychologist [[Carsten de Dreu]], chemical immunologist [[Jacques Neefjes|Sjaak Neefjes]], parasitologist Maria Yazdanbakhsh, electrochemist Mark Koper and astrophysicist Ignas Snellen.

The [[Stevin Prize]] laureates who have achieved exceptional success in knowledge exchange and impact for society include the following Leiden professors: health psychologist Andrea Evers, immunology technologist Ton Schumacher and psychologist Judi Mesman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/academic-staff/leiden-spinoza-prize-laureates |title=Leiden Spinoza and Stevin Prize laureates |publisher=Leiden University |date=3 September 2021 |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>

Other notable Leiden researchers were the Arabist and Islam expert [[Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje]], the law expert [[Cornelis van Vollenhoven]] and historian [[Johan Huizinga]], all during the 1920s and 1930s. [[Martinus Beijerinck]], one of the founders of virology, finished his Ph.D. at Leiden in 1877.

===Nobel laureates===
[[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes|Kamerlingh Onnes]] was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1913. Three other professors received the Nobel Prize for their research performed at Universiteit Leiden: [[Hendrik Antoon Lorentz]] and [[Pieter Zeeman]] received the Nobel Prize for their pioneering work in the field of optical and electronic phenomena, and the physiologist [[Willem Einthoven]] for his invention of the string galvanometer, which among other things, enabled the development of electrocardiography.

Nobel laureates associated with Leiden include the physicists [[Albert Einstein]], [[Enrico Fermi]], and [[Paul Ehrenfest]]. Other Leiden-affiliated Nobel laureates include [[Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff]], [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]], [[Tobias Asser]], [[Albert Szent-Györgyi]], [[Igor Tamm]], [[Jan Tinbergen]], [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], [[Tjalling Koopmans]], [[Nicolaas Bloembergen]], and [[Niels Jerne]].<ref>[https://www.universityleiden.nl/en/academic-staff/nobel-prize-laureates Leiden's Nobel Laureates] – website of the Leiden University</ref>