Léon Van Hove

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Van Hove in an interview at CERN in March 1976

Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (* 1924 in Brussels ; † September 2, 1990 ) was a Belgian theoretical physicist . His research interests developed from mathematics to solid state physics to nuclear physics and elementary particle physics as well as to cosmology .

Life

Van Hove studied mathematics and physics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 1946 he received his doctorate in mathematics from the ULB. From 1949/1950 and 1952 to 1954 he worked at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study , where he met Robert Oppenheimer . He later worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory and was Professor and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University in the Netherlands . In 1959 he became head of the theory department at CERN . After he was Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich from 1971 to 1974 , he returned to CERN, where he was Research Director from 1976 to 1980 and stayed until 1982.

In 1958 he received the Francqui Prize . In 1962 he received the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics . In 1971 he received the Nessim Habib Prize from the University of Geneva. In 1974 he received the Max Planck Medal . He received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Warsaw (1975), Helsinki (1977), Pavia (1977). Since 1959 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , since 1960 of the Flemish Academy of Sciences and since 1961 of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences . Since 1974 he was an external member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences . In 1964 he became an honorary member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1975 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , in 1980 a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society . He was a member of the American Physical Society .

Martinus Veltman is one of his PhD students .

He was one of the earliest editors of Physics Letters . One of his early successes for the journal was the publication of Murray Gell-Mann's 1964 essay on quarks . In the same year he also played a less notable role in the conflict with George Zweig , who was at CERN at the time and also introduced the Quark concept.

See also

literature

  • Alberto Giovannini (Editor) The legacy of Léon Van Hove , World Scientific, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Léon Van Hove's membership entry at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on February 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Member History: Leon Van Hove. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 4, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Van Hove, Léon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Van Hove, Léon Charles Prudent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1990