Category:Léon Van Hove

**Léon van Hove**
	Belgian physicist, Director General of CERN
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Date of birth	10 February 1924; Brussels metropolitan area
Date of death	2 September 1990; Geneva
Country of citizenship	Belgium;
Educated at	Université Libre de Bruxelles;
Doctoral advisor	Théophile de Donder (Free University of Brussels, 1946);
Doctoral student	Martinus J. G. Veltman (–1963); Nicolaas Marinus Hugenholtz; Edward J. Verboven; Theodorus Wilhelmus Ruijgrok; Willem van Haeringen;
Occupation	physicist; university teacher; nuclear physicist;
Employer	Utrecht University (Q62416144, 1954–1964); Leiden University (Faculteit der Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Q65561104, 1981–1982); Radboud University Nijmegen (Q61654587, Professor by special appointment, 1982–1988);
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 (Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, 1980–); American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Philosophical Society;
Field of work	theoretical physics;
Native language	French;
Award received	Francqui Prize (1958); Max Planck Medal (1974); Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1962); doctor honoris causa of the University of Helsinki; honorary doctor of the University of Warsaw;
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	Q726083; ISNI: 0000000115588888; VIAF ID: 120747971; GND ID: 119181614; Library of Congress authority ID: n85801639; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 15343147v; IdRef ID: 076511634; Biografisch Portaal van Nederland ID: 44998968; HDS ID: 043523; SELIBR ID: 189746; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 071099891, 212909444; NUKAT ID: n97004780; Libris-URI: b8nqrvnv2z4dqnh; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007447544905171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA01148641; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 98076
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