Leo Vroman

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Leo Vroman (born April 10, 1915 in Gouda) is an Dutch-American hematologist and poet.

Vroman studied biology in Utrecht. When the Nazis occupied the Netherlands on May 10, 1940 he fled to London. From there he traveled to the Dutch East Indies. He finished his studies in Batavia. After the Japanese occupied Indonesia he was interned and stayed in several prisoner-of-war camps.

After the war Vroman went to New York where he worked as a hematology researcher. He has been an American citizen since 1951.

In 1946 he published in his first poems in Holland. He has since won almost every Dutch poetry prize possible.

[edit] Scientific Works by Vroman

  • Surface contact and thromboplastin formation (1958).
  • Blood (1967).

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