‘Amice, ga je gang, maar maak het niet te moeilijk’. De wetenschapsrubriek van Pierre Vinken in Vrij Nederland: 1959-1963

P.J. Vinken's science column in the weekly Vrij Nederland: 1959-1963 Pierre Vinken (1927) began bis professional career as a consultant neurosurgeon and ended it as chairman of the Reed Elsevier publishing company. Only a few insiders have ever known, however, that, in his younger days, he was an anonymous contributor to Vrij Nederland, at the time one of the two most widely read weekly newspapers in the Netherlands. During the period 1959-1963, the paper published a total of 175 of his articles. Though dealing with a wide range of subjects, ranging from linguistics to iconology, the majority... Mehr ...