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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.