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Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the three large Flemish
Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
 universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
. It is located in the historic town of Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
 in Flanders
Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
, the Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
-speaking (northern) part of Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. It has 30,000 students and 6,400 Staff members.

History
The university was founded by King William I as part of a policy to stem the intellectual and academic lag in the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
United Kingdom of the Netherlands

United Kingdom of the Netherlands was the unofficial name used to refer to a new unified European state created from part of the First French Empire during the Congress of Vienna in 1815....
, later to become Belgium; the universities in Leuven
Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flanders, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre....
 and Liège
Liege

The term Liege may refer to:* Feudalism, where a liege is a party in the vassalic oath of allegiance* Li?ge Island, in the Antarctic* Li?ge , a subway station in Paris...
 were founded as part of the same movement.






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Ghent University (in Dutch, Universiteit Gent, abbreviated UGent) is one of the three large Flemish
Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
 universities
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
. It is located in the historic town of Ghent
Ghent

Ghent is a city and a municipality located in the Flemish region, Belgium. It is the capital and biggest city of the East Flanders province. The city started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Lys River and became in the Middle Ages one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe....
 in Flanders
Flanders

Flanders is a geographical region located in parts of present-day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. Over the course of history, the geographical territory that was called "Flanders" has varied....
, the Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
-speaking (northern) part of Belgium
Belgium

* A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
. It has 30,000 students and 6,400 Staff members.

History


The university was founded by King William I as part of a policy to stem the intellectual and academic lag in the southern part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands
United Kingdom of the Netherlands

United Kingdom of the Netherlands was the unofficial name used to refer to a new unified European state created from part of the First French Empire during the Congress of Vienna in 1815....
, later to become Belgium; the universities in Leuven
Leuven

Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flanders, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre....
 and Liège
Liege

The term Liege may refer to:* Feudalism, where a liege is a party in the vassalic oath of allegiance* Li?ge Island, in the Antarctic* Li?ge , a subway station in Paris...
 were founded as part of the same movement. The university in Ghent was opened on 9 October 1817, with JC van Rotterdam serving as the first rector
Rector

The word rector has a number of different meanings, but all of them indicate an academic, religious or political administrator.The word "rector" also appears in many modern languages, such as Albanian, Dutch language, Spanish language, Catalan language and Romanian language....
. In the first year, it had 190 students and 16 professors. The original four faculties consisted of Humanities (Letters), Law, Medicine and Science, and the language of instruction was Latin
Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
.

After peaking at a student population of 414, the number of students declined quickly following the Belgian Revolution
Belgian Revolution

The Belgian Revolution was the conflict which led to the secession of the Southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and the establishment of an independent Kingdom of Belgium....
. At this time, the faculties of Humanities and Science were broken off of the university, but they were restored five years later, in 1835.

In 1882, Sidonie Verhelst became the first female student at the university.

French became the language of instruction, taking the place of Latin, after the 1830 Revolution. In 1903, the Flemish politician Lodewijk De Raet
Lodewijk De Raet

Lodewijk De Raet was a Flanders economist and politician. He played an important role in the Flemish movement. He was co-founder of the Vlaamsche volkspartij , and was a proponent of the use of Flemish instead of French at the University of Ghent in Flanders ....
 led a successful campaign to begin instruction in Dutch
Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
, and the first courses were begun in 1906. A Flemish Institute (Vlaemsche Hoogeschool) was founded in 1916 but was disestablished due to the ongoing First World War
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. Cabinet Minister Pierre Nolf
Pierre Nolf

Pierre Nolf was a Belgium scientist and politician.In 1940, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, but the prize was not granted that year....
 put forward a motion in 1923 to fully establish the university as a Dutch-speaking university, and this was realized in 1930. August Vermeylen served as the first rector of the first exclusively Dutch university in Belgium.

In the Second World War
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, the German administration of the university attempted to create a German orientation, removing faculty members and installing loyal activists. However, the university became the focal point for many resistance members as the war progressed.

After the war, the university became a much larger institution, following government policy of democratizing higher education in Flanders during the 1950s and 1960s. By 1953, there were more than 3000 students, and by 1969 more than 11,500. The number of faculties increased to eleven, starting with Applied Sciences in 1957. It was followed by Economics and Veterinary Medicine in 1968, Psychology and Pedagogy, as well as Bioengineering, in 1969, and Pharmaceutical Sciences. The faculty of Politics and Social Sciences is the most recent addition, in 1992.

The university officially changed its name from Rijksunversiteit Gent (RUG) to Universiteit Gent (UGent) in 1991 following an increased grant of autonomy by the government of the Flemish Community
Flemish Community

The term Flemish Community has two distinct, though related, meanings:# Culturally and sociologically, it refers to Flemish organizations, media, social and cultural life; alternative expressions for this concept might be the "Flemings" or the "Flemish nation" ....
.

On March 22, 2005, Paul Van Cauwenberge
Paul Van Cauwenberge

Paul Van Cauwenberge is the rector of Ghent University since October 1, 2005.Van Cauwenberge is a senior full professor in ear, nose and throat surgery at the faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences....
 succeeded Andreas De Leenheer as rector.

Characteristics


In contrast to the Catholic University of Leuven
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is the Flemish offshoot of the oldest university in the Low Countries which was originally founded in 1425 ....
, or the Freethinking Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Flemish Community university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has two campuses referred to as Etterbeek and Jette....
, Ghent University considers itself a pluralist university in a special sense (i.e. not connected to any particular religion or ideology, hence its motto Inter Utrumque or 'In Between Both Extremes').

Notable alumni

Boekentoren Gent South West
* Leo Apostel
Leo Apostel

Leo Apostel was a Belgian philosophy and professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Universiteit Gent. Apostel was an advocate of interdisciplinary research and the bridging of the gap between exact science and humanities....
 (1925-1995), philosopher
  • Leo Baekeland
    Leo Baekeland

    Leo Hendrik Baekeland was a Demographics of Belgium chemist who invented Velox photographic paper and Bakelite , an inexpensive, nonflammable, versatile, and popular plastic....
     (1863-1944), chemist
  • Adolf von Baeyer
    Adolf von Baeyer

    Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer was a Germany chemistry who synthesized indigo dye, and was the 1905 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry....
     (1835-1917), chemist (Nobel prize winner)
  • Wim Blockmans
    Wim Blockmans

    Wim Pieter Blockmans is Professor of Medieval History at Leiden University.He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Ghent. He has also been Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study since September 2002....
     (1945-), historian
  • Thierry Bogaert
    Thierry Bogaert

    Thierry Bogaert is a Belgium scientist and businessman. He is one of the cofounders of the Belgian biotech company DevGen....
    , founder of DevGen
    DevGen

    DevGen is a biotech company located in Ghent-Zwijnaarde, Belgium. The company was founded in 1997, by Thierry Bogaert, PhD, from the University of Ghent and Michael Hengartner, PhD, from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ....
  • Luc Bossyns
    Luc Bossyns

    Luc Bossyns is a Belgium engineer and businessman. He is managing director of Aquafin the Flanders wastewater processing company....
    , civil engineer
  • Marc Bossuyt
    Marc Bossuyt

    Marc Bossuyt obtained a PhD in law at the University of Ghent in 1968, and a Certificate of international relations at Johns Hopkins University Bologna in 1969....
     (1944-), judge, professor
  • Gunnar Brinkmann, professor of computer science
  • Jo Bury
    Jo Bury

    Jo Bury is the Managing Director of Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and previously held the post of Managing Director of VLAB .Jo Bury obtained a Master's degree in Pharmacy and a PhD of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Ghent....
    , pharmacology, General Director of the VIB
  • Dries Buytaert
    Dries Buytaert

    Dries Buytaert is an open-source software programmer and the founder and lead of the Drupal Content management system. Buytaert defended his PhD dissertation in Computer Science on January 27, 2008 at the University of Ghent in Belgium....
     (1978-), computer scientist, founder of the Drupal
    Drupal

    Drupal is a free software and open source modular Software framework and Content Management System written in the programming language PHP. It is used as a "back end" system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites....
     CMS
    Content management system

    A content management system is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, search and publish various kinds of Content . CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures....
  • Robert Cailliau
    Robert Cailliau

    Robert Cailliau is a Belgian computer scientist who, together with Tim Berners-Lee, Software developer the World Wide Web....
     (1947-), inventor of the World Wide Web
  • Luc Coene
    Luc Coene

    Luc Coene is a Belgium economist and Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Belgium ....
    , economy, Vice-Governor of the National Bank of Belgium
    National Bank of Belgium

    The National Bank of Belgium has been the central bank of Belgium since 1850. The National Bank of Belgium was established by a law of 5 May 1850 as a S.A....
     (NBB).
  • Marc Coucke
    Marc Coucke

    Marc Coucke is a Belgium businessman. He studied pharmacology at the University of Ghent and obtained a Master in General Management from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School....
     (1965-), co-founder of Omega Pharma
    Omega Pharma

    Omega Pharma is a Belgium Pharmaceutical company, founded in 1987 by Marc Coucke and Yvan Vindevogel, both former Pharmacy students at the Ghent University....
  • Martin De Prycker
    Martin De Prycker

    Martin De Prycker is a Belgium engineer and businessman. He is the CEO of Barco NV, a Belgian display hardware manufacturer....
     (1955-), engineer.
  • Franz Cumont
    Franz Cumont

    Franz-Val?ry-Marie Cumont was a Belgium archaeologist and historian, a philology and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated specialties to bear on the syncretic mystery religions of Late Antiquity, notably Mithraism....
     (1868-1947), historian
  • Jean Daskalidès
    Jean Daskalidès

    Jean Daskalid?s , was a Belgian of Greeks descent who became famous for his chocolates under the name Daskalid?s and Leonidas and moreover he was also a gynecologist, film director, jazz musician, hospital director and lector at the University of Ghent....
    , (1922-1992), gynecologist, founder of Leonidas chocolates
  • Els De Bens, philologist, media specialist
  • Bert De Graeve
    Bert De Graeve

    Bert De Graeve is a Belgium businessman and since 20 May 2006 Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Bekaert, where he succeeded Julien De Wilde....
    , law, businessman
  • Rudy Dekeyser
    Rudy Dekeyser

    Rudy Dekeyser is the Managing Director of Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and heads the technology transfer team of the institute. He obtained a PhD in molecular biology at the University of Ghent....
    , molecular biologist, Assistant Director of the VIB
  • Wim De Waele
    Wim De Waele

    Wim De Waele is a Belgium economist and computer scientist. He is Director of the IBBT located in Ghent .In 1977, he graduated in economics and computer science at the University of Ghent ....
    , economy and computer science, Director of the IBBT
    IBBT

    The Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology, is a Flanders non-profit organization, founded by the Flemish government. It was founded as a research institute, with a focus on information & communication technology in general, and applications of broadband technology in particular....
  • Martin Dobelle
    Martin Dobelle

    Martin Dobelle was a veteran orthopedic surgeon.Born in New York City December 25, 1906, the son of Harry and Ida Kaplan Dobelle, he grew up in Brooklyn, New York....
    , vertan orthopedic sergeon
  • Paul Fredericq
    Paul Fredericq

    Paul Fredericq, was a Belgian historian at Ghent University....
    , historian
  • Walter Fiers
    Walter Fiers

    Walter Fiers is a Belgium molecular biologist.He obtained a degree of Engineer for Chemistry and Agricultural Industries at the University of Ghent in 1954, and started his research career as an Enzyme in the laboratory of Laurent Vandendriessche in Ghent....
     (1931-), molecular biologist
  • Leopold Flam
    Leopold Flam

    Leopold Flam was a Belgium philosopher. Together with Alphonse Dewaelhens, Cha?m Perelman and Rudolf Boehm, he was one of leading philosophers of Belgium from the sixties until the eighties....
     (1912-1995), historian, philosopher
  • Dirk Frimout
    Dirk Frimout

    Dirk Dries David Damiaan, Viscount Frimout is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He flew aboard Space Shuttle mision STS-45 as a payload specialist making him the first Belgian in space....
     (1941-), physicist, astronaut
  • Joseph Guislain
    Joseph Guislain

    Joseph Guislain was a Belgium physician and a pioneer in psychiatry....
     (1797-1860), physiologist and psychiatrist
  • Jacques-Joseph Haus
    Jacques-Joseph Haus

    Jacques-Joseph Haus was born in W?rzburg, Germany on January 5, 1796 to Ernest-Augustus Haus and Marie-Barbe Stang. He died in Ghent, Belgium on february 23, 1881....
     (1796-1881), jurist
  • Lucienne Herman-Michielsens
    Lucienne Herman-Michielsens

    Lucienne Adeline Jeanne Ida Michielsens was a Belgium liberal politician for the Party for Freedom and Progress . She was married to the physician Jacques Herman....
    , (1926-1995) , law, politician
  • Philippe Herreweghe
    Philippe Herreweghe

    Philippe Herreweghe is a Belgium Conducting.In his school years at the University of Ghent, Herreweghe combined studies in medical science and psychiatry with a musical education at the Ghent Conservatory, where Marcel Gazelle, Yehudi Menuhin's accompanist, was his piano teacher....
     (1947-), doctor, psychiatrist, orchestra conductor
  • Corneille Heymans
    Corneille Heymans

    Corneille Jean Fran?ois Heymans was a Belgium physiology. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to the University of Ghent....
     (1892-1968), physiologist (Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     winner)
  • Mark Janse
    Mark Janse

    Mark Janse is Research Professor in Asia Minor and Ancient Greek at Ghent University, where he studied Classics, Hebrew and Linguistics. Before coming to Ghent, Janse has been editor of Linguistic Bibliography and Professor of Linguistics and Classics and Head of the Department of Arts & Humanities at Roosevelt Academy, an international hono...
     (1959- ), classicist & linguist
  • Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz (1829-1896), chemist
  • Jaap Kruithof, philosopher
  • Tom Lanoye
    Tom Lanoye

    Tom Lanoye [lan-WA] is a Belgium novelist and poet who works in Antwerp and Cape Town . He is the most influential and best-known Flemish writer of his generation, and won numerous literary prizes, both in The Netherlands and in Flanders....
     (1958-), philologist, writer
  • François Laurent
    François Laurent

    Fran?ois Laurent was a Luxembourg historian and jurisconsult....
     (1810-1887), jurist
  • Marguerite Legot
    Marguerite Legot

    Marguerite Victorine Z?phirine Anne De Riemaecker-Legot was the first Belgium woman to serve as a government minister, and the first to be appointed Minister of State....
     (1913-1977), jurist, first Belgian woman to serve as a government minister
  • Yves Leterme
    Yves Leterme

    Yves Camille D?sir? Leterme is a Belgium politician, a leader of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party . He was the Prime Minister of Belgium from March 2008 to December 2008....
     (1960-), Ex-Prime Minister of Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  • Herman Liebaers
    Herman Liebaers

    Herman Liebaers is a Belgium linguist born in Tienen, Belgium. He was the first Fleming to become Marshal of the Royal Household of the Royal Court of Belgium....
     (1919-), writer, former Marschal of the Royal Household.
  • Suzanne Lilar
    Suzanne Lilar

    Suzanne, Baroness Lilar was a Flemish people Belgian essayist, novelist, and playwright writing in French language. She was the wife of the Belgian Minister of Justice Albert Lilar and mother of the writer Fran?oise Mallet-Joris and the art historian Marie Fredericq-Lilar....
     (born Suzanne Verbist) (1901-1992), philosopher, jurist, essayist, novelist
  • Julius Mac Leod
    Julius Mac Leod

    Julius Mac Leod , was a Belgium biologist and professor at the University of Ghent.Mac Leod was born in Ostend. He was also director of the List of botanical gardens#Belgium....
     (1857-1919), botanist
  • Maurice Maeterlinck
    Maurice Maeterlinck

    Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard, Count Maeterlinck was a Belgian playwright, poet and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 in literature....
     (1862-1949), jurist, writer (Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     winner)
  • Paul Mansion, mathematician
  • Rudi Mariën
    Rudi Mariën

    Rudi Mari?n is a Belgium scientist and businessman. He is Chairman of the Belgian biotech company Innogenetics....
    , pharmacy, Chairman of Innogenetics
    Innogenetics

    Innogenetics is a Belgium-based international biopharmaceutical company, with headquarters in Ghent, Belgium. The company has two divisions: a specialty diagnostics business, and a therapeutics business that develops therapeutic vaccines....
  • Gerard Mortier
    Gérard Mortier

    Gerard, Baron Mortier is a Belgium opera director and administrator of Flemish origin.Mortier has served as general director of La Monnaie and of the Salzburg Festival ....
     (1943-), artistic director
  • Jean-Pierre Nuel
    Jean-Pierre Nuel

    Jean-Pierre Nuel was a Luxembourgian-Belgium ophthalmologist and physiologist who was a native of T?tange. In 1870 he earned his doctorate from the University of Ghent, and became licensed to practice surgery and gynecology in Luxembourg....
     (1847-1920), physiologist
  • Peter Piot
    Peter Piot

    Peter, Baron Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded the Vlerick Award....
     (1949-), doctor, assistant secretary-general of the United Nations
    United Nations

    The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, Social change, human rights and achieving world peace....
  • Henri Pirenne
    Henri Pirenne

    Henri Pirenne was a leading Belgium historian. He also became prominent in the non-violent resistance to the Germany who occupied Belgium in World War I....
     (1862-1935), historian
  • Karel Poma
    Karel Poma

    Karel Emiel Hubert, Baron Poma is a Belgium liberal and politician for the Partij voor Vrijheid en Vooruitgang. He is a son of Carolus Poma, who was a lieutenant of the Antwerp fire brigade, and subsequently council member and mayor of the town Wilrijk....
     (1920-), chemist and politician
  • Adolphe Quetelet
    Adolphe Quetelet

    Lambert Adolphe Jacques Qu?telet was a Demographics of Belgium astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist. He founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences....
     (1796-1874), statistician
  • Godfried-Willem Raes
    Godfried-Willem Raes

    Godfried-Willem Raes is a Belgium composer, performer and instrument maker. He is the founder of the Logos Foundation of which he is still the president....
     (1952-), composer, performer and instrument maker
  • Jacques Rogge
    Jacques Rogge

    Jacques Rogge, Count Rogge is a Belgium sports functionary. He is the eighth president of the International Olympic Committee ....
     (1942-), doctor, president of the International Olympic Committee
    International Olympic Committee

    The International Olympic Committee is an organization based in Lausanne, Switzerland, created by Pierre de Coubertin and Demetrios Vikelas on June 23, 1894....
  • Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns
    Gustave Rolin-Jaequemyns

    Gustave Henri Ange Hippolyte Rolin-Jaequemyns was a Belgium attorney at law, diplomat and Minister of the Interior as a member of the Liberal Party ....
     (1835-1902), jurist, diplomat and cofounder of the Institut de droit international
    Institut de droit international

    The Institut de droit international is an organization devoted to the study and development of international law, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1904....
  • Jozef Schell
    Jozef Schell

    Jozef Stefaan Schell was a Belgium molecular biology.Jozef Schell studied Zoology and microbiology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From 1967 to 1995 he worked as a professor at the university....
     (1935-2003), molecular biologist
  • Erwin Schrödinger
    Erwin Schrödinger

    Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schr?dinger was an Austrian theoretical physicist who achieved fame for his contributions to quantum mechanics, especially the Schr?dinger equation, for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1933....
     (1887-1961), physicist, (Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     winner)
  • Ferdinand Augustijn Snellaert, (1809-1872), physician and writer
  • Luc Van den Bossche
    Luc Van den Bossche

    Luc Van den Bossche is a Belgium socialist politician and father of Freya Van den Bossche.He graduated as a Doctor in law at the University of Ghent in 1970....
     (1947-), law, politician
  • Guido van Gheluwe
    Guido van Gheluwe

    Guido Richard van Gheluwe is a Belgium lawyer and founder of the Orde van den Prince. He founded the Orde van den Prince on 2 November 1955, and was its president from 1955 until 1964....
     (1926-), jurist and founder of the Orde van den Prince
    Orde van den Prince

    The Orde van den Prince or Order of the Prince is a Flemish-Dutch society of men and women who do their best for the promotion of language and culture of the Netherlands ....
  • Herman Vanderpoorten
    Herman Vanderpoorten

    Herman Vanderpoorten was a Belgium liberal politician. He was a son of the politician Arthur Vanderpoorten, the father of Marleen Vanderpoorten and an uncle of Patrick Dewael....
    , (1922-1984), politician
  • Hugo Van Heuverswyn
    Hugo Van Heuverswyn

    Hugo Van Heuverswyn is a Belgium molecular biologist, biotech pioneer and businessman. He has been the chairman of, the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie , since its inception in 1995....
     (1948-) chemist, biotech pioneer and businessman
  • Ann Van Gysel
    Ann Van Gysel

    Ann Van Gysel is a Belgium scientist and businesswoman. She was communications manager of the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie and became the General Manager of FlandersBio on 1 June 2008, where she succeeded Els Vanheusden....
    , zoology
  • Karel van de Woestijne
    Karel van de Woestijne

    Karel van de Woestijne was a Flanders writer and brother of the painter Gustave van de Woestijne. He went to highschool at the Koninklijk Athenaeum at the Ottogracht in Ghent....
    , (1878-1929), writer
  • Prudens van Duyse
    Prudens van Duyse

    Prudentius van Duyse or Prudens van Duyse was a Flanders writer. He started his career a clerk of a Civil law notary, but afterwards studied law at the University of Ghent, where he graduated in 1932....
    , (1804-1859), writer
  • Henry van de Velde
    Henry van de Velde

    Henry Van de Velde was a Belgium painter, architect and interior designer. Together with Victor Horta he can be considered one of the main founders and representatives of Art Nouveau in Belgium....
     (1863-1957), architect
  • Marc Van Montagu
    Marc Van Montagu

    Marc Van Montagu is a Belgium molecular biology. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie ....
     (1933-), biotech pioneer
  • Désiré van Monckhoven
    Désiré van Monckhoven

    D?sir? Charles Emanuel van Monckhoven was a Belgium chemist, physicist, and photographic researcher. He was also an inventor and author. He wrote several of the earliest books on photography and photographic optics....
     (1934-1882), physicist
  • Jules Van Praet
    Jules Van Praet

    Jules Van Praet was a Belgium diplomat and personal secretary of King Leopold I of Belgium. He was born in Bruges, and died in Brussels aged 81....
     (1806-1887), statesman
  • Piet Vanthemsche
    Piet Vanthemsche

    Piet Vanthemsche is a Belgium veterinary surgeon and civil servant. In 2008, he succeeded No?l Devisch as President of the Boerenbond in Leuven....
    , veterinary surgeon
  • Guy Verhofstadt
    Guy Verhofstadt

    is a Belgium politician, municipal councilor in Ghent and former List of Prime Ministers of Belgium....
     (1953-), former Prime Minister of Belgium
    Belgium

    * A small German-speaking Community of Belgium exists in eastern Wallonia. Belgium's linguistic diversity and related political and cultural conflicts are reflected in the history of Belgium and a complex Communities and regions of Belgium....
  • Etienne Vermeersch
    Etienne Vermeersch

    Etienne Vermeersch is a Belgium philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater. He is one of the founding fathers of the abortion and euthanasia law in Belgium....
     (1934-), philosopher
  • Kristiaan Versluys, literary scholar
  • André Vlerick
    André Vlerick

    Andr?, Baron Vlerick was a Belgium politician, businessman, professor and founder of the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School. He graduated in economy at the University of Ghent and became a professor at the university....
     (1919-1990), economy
  • Emile Waxweiler
    Emile Waxweiler

    Emile Waxweiler was a Belgium engineer and sociologist. He was a member of the The Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium as well as the International Institute of Statistics ....
     (1867–1916), engineer and sociologist
  • Marc Zabeau
    Marc Zabeau

    Marc Zabeau is a Belgium scientist and businessman....
     (1949-), zoology
  • Arnoud De Meyer (presently) Director of Judge Business School University of Cambridge.
  • Alexander Van Dijck M.D.Pioneer in rare diseases


Notable faculty

  • S.N. Balagangadhara, comparative science of cultures
  • Jan De Maeseneer
    Jan De Maeseneer

    Professor Jan De Maeseneer is a Belgium physician and professor of family medicine at the University of Ghent.He was born in Ghent. In 1977, he graduated as a medical doctor at the University of Ghent and since 1978 works as a family physician at the Wijkgezondheidscentrum Botermarkt in Ledeberg ....
    , medicine, family medicine
  • Georges De Moor
    Georges De Moor

    Professor Georges J. E. De Moor is a Belgium Doctor of Medicine and head of the Department of Health Informatics and Medical Statistics of the University of Ghent ....
    , medicine, medical informatics
  • Walter Fiers
    Walter Fiers

    Walter Fiers is a Belgium molecular biologist.He obtained a degree of Engineer for Chemistry and Agricultural Industries at the University of Ghent in 1954, and started his research career as an Enzyme in the laboratory of Laurent Vandendriessche in Ghent....
    , molecular biologist
  • Corneille Heymans
    Corneille Heymans

    Corneille Jean Fran?ois Heymans was a Belgium physiology. He studied at the prestigious Jesuit College of Sainte Barbe after which he proceeded to the University of Ghent....
    , physiologist (Nobel prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     winner)
  • Joseph Plateau
    Joseph Plateau

    Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau was a Belgium physicist.Born in Brussels, he studied at the University of Li?ge , where he graduated as a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences in 1829....
    , physicist
  • Xavier Saelens
    Xavier Saelens

    Xavier Saelens is a Belgium scientist and currently his main research interest is finding a universal influenza vaccine. He is a Lecturer in Virology and Group Leader of the Molecular Virology Unit at the University of Ghent ...
    , biotechnology
  • Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
    Johan Rudolf Thorbecke

    was one of the most important Netherlands politicians. In 1848, he virtually singlehandedly drafted the revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands, giving less power to the king, and more to the parliament....
    , statesman
  • Marc Van Montagu
    Marc Van Montagu

    Marc Van Montagu is a Belgium molecular biology. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at the faculty of Sciences at Ghent University and scientific director of the Genetics Department of the Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie ....
    , biotech pioneer
  • August Vermeylen, author, art historian, statesman
  • George de Hevesy
    George de Hevesy

    Georg Karl von Hevesy was a Hungary Radiochemistry and Nobel laureate, recognised in 1943 for his key role in the development of the tracer method where radioactive tracers are used to study chemical processes such as in the metabolism of animals....
    , Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry
  • Alexander Van Dijk,pioneer in rare diseases


See also

  • Science and technology in Flanders
    Science and technology in Flanders

    Science and technology in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium , is well developed with the presence of several List_of_universities_in_Belgium#Institutes_of_Higher_Education_in_the_Flemish_Community and research institutes....
  • List of universities in Belgium
    List of universities in Belgium

    In Belgium, which is a Federalism state, the constitution attributes legislative power over higher education to the Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium....
  • List of forestry universities and colleges
    List of forestry universities and colleges

    This is a list of colleges and universities worldwide that offer either a Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in the profession field of forestry. Where noted, the country's Educational accreditation standard has been used and cited....
  • Flanders Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology (VIB)
  • Ghent Bio-Energy Valley
    Ghent Bio-Energy Valley

    The Ghent Bio-Energy Valley is a joint initiative, started in 2005, of Ghent University, the city of Ghent, the Port of Ghent, the Development Agency East-Flanders and a number of industrial companies....
  • Greenbridge science park
    Greenbridge science park

    The Greenbridge science park is a business incubator and science park of Ghent University and is located on the Plassendale site in Ostend . The site is aimed towards research and development in Feed and food, Health and wellness, Environment and energy and ICT applications in those sectors....
  • Zwijnaarde science park
    Zwijnaarde science park

    The Zwijnaarde science park is a science park of Ghent university, located in Zwijnaarde near Ghent . The science park has an area of 52 hectare and comprises the Ardoyen campus of the University of Ghent and the Ardoyen science park ....
  • University Foundation
    University Foundation

    The Belgium University Foundation was founded in 1920. The goal of the Foundation, as was put forward by Emile Francqui, is to promote scientific activity at Belgian universities....
  • Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC)


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