Roger Van Overstraeten Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: In Memory of Roger J. Van Overstraeten . Claeys, Cor L. . July 1999 . . September 24, 2012 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20020311224621/http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/eds/jul99/overstn.htm . March 11, 2002 .
2. Obituary - Baron Professor Roger Van Overstraeten . . 16 . 3 . 1999 . . September 24, 2012.
3. Book: Palz, Wolfgang. Power for the World: The Emergence of Electricity from the Sun. 7.
4. Web site: Stanford Magazine - Obituaries . September–October 1999 . . .
5. Web site: IEEE Frederik Philips Award Recipients . https://web.archive.org/web/20100619213930/http://ieee.org/documents/philips_rl.pdf . dead . June 19, 2010 . . .