Jan Drenth

Drenth was born in Groningen on 20 February 1925.^[1] He obtained his PhD in mathematics and physics under Eelco Wiebenga at the University of Groningen in 1957, with a dissertation titled: Een röntgenografisch onderzoek van excelsine, edestine en tabakszaadglobuline. Drenth subsequently moved to New York, United States, where he became a post-doc and studied protein crystallography under Barbara Low. Drenth then returned to the Netherlands and in 1967 was appointed lector.^[1][2] In 1969 he was appointed professor of structural chemistry, which he remained until his retirement in 1990.^[1]

Drenth was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1973.^[3]

Drenth died on 11 February 2025, at the age of 99.^[4]

• Principles of Protein X-Ray Crystallography.