scienceguide.nl - 2026-10-04

URL: https://www.scienceguide.nl/2011/06/spinozapremie-voor-erik-verlinde/ (reached by Google result) Result: partial - only the lead paragraph is open; rest behind SURFconext login (not attempted). Finding [web]: 6 June 2011, Sicco de Knecht: NWO awarded Verlinde a Spinoza Prize of EUR 2.5 million "for his creative ingenuity"; describes his research as using string theory; notes he was 7th in ScienceGuide's 2010 Top 10. Priority 4 (institutional record): the entropic-gravity proposal was followed within 18 months by the top Dutch science prize - relevant to "how the claim was received" (not evidence about the physics). Next: NWO's own 2011 Spinoza announcement and citation text (nwo.nl), NWO h5mag 2017 profile.