Léon Van Hove
Belgian physicist
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Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology. Wikipedia
Born: February 10, 1924, Brussels, Belgium
Died: September 2, 1990 (age 66 years), Geneva, Switzerland
Academic advisor: Théophile de Donder
Awards: Max Planck Medal (1974), Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics (1962), and Francqui Prize (1958)