Asteroids named after people called Jacobus
(34978) van 't Hoff
The Dutch physical chemist Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901. The award was for his work showing that the laws describing the behavior of very dilute solutions resemble the laws describing the behavior of gases.Discovered 17 October 1977 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T., Palomar