Scientists from Groningen (city)

Jan Theodoor Gerard Overbeek (Groningen, January 30, 1911 – February 19, 2007) was a Dutch professor of physical chemistry at the Utrecht University.

Jan Ritzema Bos (25 July 1850, in Groningen – 7 April 1928, in Wageningen) was a Dutch plant pathologist and zoologist. He served as the first director of the Willie Commelin Scholten Foundation and founder of the Plant Protection Service in 1899 in Amsterdam. Bos described several species of plant nematode.