Researching Joris Keizer
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 20 people with the Keizer surname? In that year Keizer was ranked number 3559 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Joris Keizer on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Joris Keizer and the Keizer Genealogy
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Some Famous People called Joris Keizer
Joris Keizer
Joris Gerhard Keizer (born 26 January 1979, in Hengelo) is a retired butterfly swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia. There he was eliminated in the semifinals of the 100m butterfly, and finished in fourth place with the men's 4×100 medley relay team. A year earlier, Keizer won the bronze medal in the 50m butterfly at the 1999 FINA Short Course World Championships. He retired from the sport after a disappointing appearance at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
He received his PhD in Physics and is now a post-doctorate researcher at the University of New South Wales. He has gone on to do research into the fields of quantum computing and quantum physics.
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