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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Andre het astronautje gaat naar Mars
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Active from
- 1989-11-11
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 41
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,620x
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· 2020 · cited 15,975x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,241x
- Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,660x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1958-10-05 ) 5 October 1958 (age 67) , Amsterdam , Netherlands
- Occupation
- Physician
- Status
- Retired
- Time in space
- 203d 15h 50m
- Selection
- 1998 ESA Group
- Missions
- Soyuz TMA-4 / TMA-3 , Soyuz TMA-03M ( Expedition 30 / 31 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- André
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam
- Educated at
- University of Amsterdam
- Employer
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Image
- André Kuipers 2011.jpg
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- Commons category
- André Kuipers
- date of birth
- 1958-10-05
- time in space
- 277618
- member of the crew of
- Soyuz TMA-03M
- social media followers
- 448029
- name in native language
- André Kuipers
- P450
- Soyuz TMA-3
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Encyclopedic overview
André Kuipers ( Dutch: [ˈɑndreː ˈkœypərs] ; born 5 October 1958) is a Dutch physician and ESA astronaut. He became the second Dutch citizen, third Dutch-born and fifth Dutch-speaking astronaut upon launch of Soyuz TMA-4 on 19 April 2004. Kuipers returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-3 11 days later.
Kuipers is the first Dutch astronaut to return to space. On 5 August 2009, Dutch minister of economic affairs Maria van der Hoeven, announced Kuipers was selected as an astronaut for International Space Station (ISS) Expeditions 30 and 31. He was launched to space on 21 December 2011 and returned to Earth on 1 July 2012.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “André Kuipers” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.