Adriaan van der Woude (3 June 1930, Westerbroek – 20 August 2017) was a Dutch nuclear physicist, known as a leading expert on giant resonances.
equivalent and in 1960 with a Ph.D.[1] His doctoral dissertation Construction and operation of betatron and cloud chamber was supervised by Hendrik "Henk" Brinkmann (1909–1994).
[2] Van der Woude worked from 1960 to 1963 in Brinkmann's group at the University of Groningen's Physics Laboratory.
From 1963 to 1965 he was on a leave of absence from the University of Groningen and did research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory on nuclear and atomic physics.
During the construction period, he led the project, together with Sydney Galès, and spent a sabbatical year in Orsay for that purpose.