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unusual facts about Van Dorp


Recovery of RĂ© island

On 16 July 1625, Soubise managed to blow up the Dutch ship under Vice-Admiral Van Dorp, with a loss of 300 Dutch sailors.



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David Adriaan van Dorp

In 1946, while employed by the Dutch Organon company in Oss, Van Dorp and Jozef Ferdinand Arens ('Coco') published the synthesis for vitamin A acid in the scientific journal Nature.