Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937,

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– 29 April 1999,

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) was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an

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and the founder of the

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and

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research center

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. Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1963.

Honors and awards

In 1989 he was awarded the first Becquerel Prize by the

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

References

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