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Léon van Hove
Belgian physicist, Director General of CERN (1924–1990)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 10 February 1924
- Died
- 2 September 1990
- Place of birth
- Brussels metropolitan area
- Place of death
- Geneva
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Van Hove
- Field of work
- theoretical physics
- Occupation
- physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist
- Citizenship
- Belgium
- Native language
- French
- Awards
- Francqui Prize, Max Planck Medal, Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, doctor honoris causa of the University of Helsinki, honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw
- described by source
- Physicists: Biographical Dictionary
- doctoral advisor
- Théophile de Donder
- doctoral student
- Martinus J. G. Veltman, Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz, Edward J. Verboven, Theodorus Wilhelmus Ruijgrok, Willem van Haeringen
- educated at
- Université libre de Bruxelles
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- member of
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Philosophical Society
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