• Piet Hein or Piet-Hein may refer to: Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629), Dutch naval commander and folk hero Piet Hein (scientist) (1905–1996), descendant...
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    Piet Hein (16 December 1905 – 17 April 1996) was a Danish polymath (mathematician, inventor, designer, writer and poet), often writing under the Old Norse...
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    Piet Pieterszoon Hein (25 November 1577 – 18 June 1629) was a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War. Hein was...
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    The Piet Hein Tunnel (52°22′23″N 4°56′51″E / 52.372962°N 4.947633°E / 52.372962; 4.947633) is a 1.9 km long tunnel under the IJ in Amsterdam, the Netherlands...
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  • HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. or Zr.Ms. Piet Hein) may refer to following ships of the Royal Netherlands Navy: HNLMS Piet Hein (1894), an Evertsen-class...
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    Piet Hein Eek is a Dutch designer. He is known for designs which require significant time from craftspeople, despite using very inexpensive, found materials...
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  • aphorism created by the Danish poet, designer, inventor, and scientist Piet Hein. He wrote over 7,000 of them from 1939 until his death in 1996, mostly...
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  • Piet Hein Hoebens (29 September 1948, Utrecht – 22 October 1984) was a Dutch journalist, skeptic, and critic of parapsychology. Hoebens is most well known...
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    HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was an Admiralen-class destroyer of the Royal Netherlands Navy, named after 17th century Dutch Admiral Piet Pieterszoon...
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  • cabinet minister Piet Hartman (1922–2021), Dutch crystallographer Piet Pieterszoon Hein (1577–1629), Dutch naval officer Piet Hein (scientist) (1905–1996)...
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    Jan Pieter Hendrik "Piet Hein" Donner (born 20 October 1948) is a retired Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and jurist....
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    HNLMS Piet Hein (F811) (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was a frigate of the Kortenaer class. The ship was in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy from 1981...
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    development, Yas is based on the hull of a former navy frigate. HNLMS Piet Hein, a Kortenaer-class frigate of the Royal Netherlands Navy was launched...
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    zero at the tips. The shape was popularized by Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein (1905–1996). Supereggs of various materials, including brass, were sold...
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  • John Hein (1886–1963), American wrestler Jon Hein (born 1967), American radio personality Jotun Hein (born 1956), Danish bioinformatician, son of Piet Hein...
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    board made of hexagonal cells. Hex was invented by mathematician and poet Piet Hein in 1942 and later rediscovered and popularized by John Nash. It is traditionally...
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    uncle of the former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner. On August 24, 1983, Donner suffered a stroke, which he wrote happened...
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    ISBN 0691159912. Gardner, Martin (2016). The Recreational Mathematics of Piet Hein Piet Hein Website Gathering 4 Gardner (2014). Martin Gardner – Magician Gould...
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    TacTix is a two-player strategy game invented by Piet Hein, a poet well known for dabbling in math and science, best known for his game Hex. TacTix is...
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    her sister ship Sumatra and the destroyers Van Galen, Witte de With and Piet Hein were present at the fleet days held at Surabaya. Later that year on 13...
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    force that outnumbered and outgunned them, sinking the Dutch destroyer Piet Hein and escorting two transports to safety. The battle demonstrated the Japanese...
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  • Piet-Hein Willem Geeris (born 29 March 1972 in Boxtel) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 194 international matches for the Netherlands...
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  • (1902–1971), Poul Kjærholm (1929–1980), Hans J. Wegner (1914–2007) and Piet Hein (1905–1996). Fritz Hansen also collaborates with contemporary furniture...
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  • Jotun John Piet Hein (born 19 July 1956) is Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Statistics of the University of Oxford and a professorial...
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    Hoebens, Piet Hein (1981). 'Gerard Croiset: Investigation of the Mozart of "Psychic Sleuths"'. Skeptical Inquirer 6, nº 1: 18–28. Hoebens, Piet Hein (1982)...
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    The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Danish polymath Piet Hein in 1933 during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg...
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    HNLMS Piet Hein (Dutch: Hr.Ms. Piet Hein) was a Evertsen-class coastal defence ship of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The ship was 86.2 metres (282 ft 10 in)...
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    Piet Hein was a Téméraire-class 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Piet Hein, was one of the ships built in the various shipyards captured by...
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    type family. The superellipse was named by the Danish poet and scientist Piet Hein (1905–1996) though he did not discover it as it is sometimes claimed....
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    On 3 March 1627 Piet hein and his crew spotted about 34 enemy vessels at São Salvador 16 of the ships where armed but hein with his three vessels sailed...
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