Léon Van Hove, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Léon Van Hove

Belgian physicist, Director General of CERN

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1924

Place of Birth: Brussels metropolitan area, Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1990

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Belgium

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove (10 February 1924 – 2 September 1990) was a Belgian physicist and a former Director General of CERN.
He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology.