Roger Van Overstraeten

Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937, Vlezenbeek – 29 April 1999, Leuven) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an IEEE Fellow and the founder of the micro- and nanoelectronics research center IMEC.[1][2]

Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1963.

Honors and awards

In 1989 he was awarded the first Becquerel Prize by the European Commission.[3]

In 1990 Van Overstraeten was elevated to Baron[4] and he received the IEEE Frederik Philips Award (1999).[5]

gollark: It would be good to be able to steal uranium from it I guess.
gollark: > if i wanna start building a nuclear facility its not finished when i am leavingJust rely on sunk cost fallacy!
gollark: I don't really mind being near one. Not literally next to it. It would be quite loud and stuff probably.
gollark: Just use nuclear. It's energy dense and environmentally friendly.
gollark: > That's illegalPoliticians lying can't possibly be illegal.

References
  1. Claeys, Cor L. (July 1999). "In Memory of Roger J. Van Overstraeten". IEEE. Archived from the original on March 11, 2002. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  2. "Obituary - Baron Professor Roger Van Overstraeten". Microelectronics International. Emerald Group Publishing. 16 (3). 1999. Retrieved September 24, 2012.
  3. Palz, Wolfgang. Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun. p. 7.
  4. "Stanford Magazine - Obituaries". Stanford University. September–October 1999. Retrieved July 10, 2013.
  5. "IEEE Frederik Philips Award Recipients" (PDF). IEEE. Retrieved September 24, 2012.


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