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The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
-speaking university
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....
 in Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, 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 about 20,000 students.

niversité Libre de Bruxelles means in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: "Free University of Brussels" or written alternatively "Non-Denominational University of Brussels", but this translation is rarely used (university names are rarely used as translated) all the more since its 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 counterpart, the 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....
, has the same meaning. Some facilities, shared by both universities, do use the name "Brussels Free Universities", abbreviated BFU.






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The Université Libre de Bruxelles (or ULB) is a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
-speaking university
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....
 in Brussels
Brussels

Brussels , officially the Brussels Capital-Region, is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium....
, 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 about 20,000 students.

Name

Université Libre de Bruxelles means in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
: "Free University of Brussels" or written alternatively "Non-Denominational University of Brussels", but this translation is rarely used (university names are rarely used as translated) all the more since its 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 counterpart, the 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....
, has the same meaning. Some facilities, shared by both universities, do use the name "Brussels Free Universities", abbreviated BFU. For example the Computing Center, BFUCC ().

History

The history of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is closely linked with that of Belgium itself. When the nine provinces that broke away from the Kingdom of the Netherlands formed the Belgian State in 1830, there were three state universities in the country: Ghent, Liege and Leuven. Even though Brussels had been promoted to the rank of capital, it still had no university.

For this reason, in 1831 a group of leading Brussels Masonic figures in the fields of the arts, science and education set themselves the objective of creating a university for the city. They had the choice between a state university and, failing that, a private institution, since the Belgian Constitution, the most liberal in Europe, allowed for this possibility.

Finding the financial burden of the three existing universities too onerous, the Belgian government showed little enthusiasm for yet another state university. However, when in 1834 the episcopate decided to found the Catholic University at Mechelen, things began to happen very quickly. The liberal professions and Freemasons, lead by Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen
Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen

Pierre-Th?odore Verhaegen was a Belgium lawyer, founder of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, and liberal politician. He was Chairman of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives ...
 and Auguste Baron, who were promoting the Brussels university project, stepped up their efforts, with the result that the Free University of Belgium, as it was originally known, inaugurated its first academic year on 20 November 1834.

From 1836 it was to be called the Université Libre de Bruxelles, but although the geographical term may have changed, the adjective "free" remained. This was a key point.

The school's football (soccer)
Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players, and is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world....
 team won the bronze medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics
Football at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, a football tournament was contested for the first time. Only two demonstration matches were held between the three club sides, and no medals were awarded....
.

Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen, who helped make the university, is the symbol of the creation of the university. November 20th, called 'St V
St V

St V is the commonly used name for a holiday for university students in Brussels, Belgium, celebrating the founding of the Free University of Brussels....
', is a holiday for students of both the Université Libre de Belgique and the 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....
.

Since 1935 some courses have been taught in both French and Dutch, but it was only in 1963 that all faculties held courses in both languages. Shortly after the language dispute at the Catholic University of Leuven
Catholic University of Leuven

The Catholic University of Leuven, or Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. It was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V, and refounded in 1835 after the disruptions of the French Revolutionary Wars....
, in October 1969 the French and Dutch entities of the ULB separated into two distinct universities. With the act of 28 May 1970, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Université Libre de Bruxelles officially became two separate legal, administrative and scientific entities.

Campuses

The ULB comprises three main campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
es: the Campus de la Plaine in Ixelles, the Campus du Solbosch, on the territories of Brussels and Ixelles municipalities, in the Brussels-Capital Region and the Campus Erasme (faculty of medicine) in Anderlecht
Anderlecht

Anderlecht is one of the nineteen Municipalities in Belgium located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. There are several historically and architecturally distinct districts within the Anderlecht municipality....
 beside the Erasme Hospital but the university has also buildings and activities in Charleroi
Charleroi

Charleroi is the largest city and Municipalities in Belgium of Wallonia, located in the Provinces of Belgium of Hainaut , Belgium. On 1 January 2008, Charleroi had a total population of 201,593....
, Parentville, Treignes and Nivelles
Nivelles

Nivelles is a Wallonia city and Municipalities in Belgium located in the Belgium Provinces of Belgium of Walloon Brabant. The Nivelles municipality includes the old communes of Baulers, Bornival, Thines, and Monstreux....
.
Ulb Clocktower

Faculties, schools and institutes

  1. Faculty of Philosophy, and Letters
  2. Faculty of Law, and Criminological Science
  3. Faculty of Social and Political Sciences & Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management
    Solvay Business School

    The Solvay Business School is a business school accredited by the European Quality Improvement System and Association of MBAs, and is part of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium....
  4. Faculty of Psychological Science, and of Education
  5. Faculty of Sciences (recently absorbed the Institute of Environment Gestion (IGEAT))
  6. Interfacultary School of Bio-Engineering
  7. Faculty of Medicine
  9. High institute of Physical Education, and Kinesitherapy
  12. Institute of Work Sciences
  13. Institute of European Studies
  14. Institute of Statistics and Operational Research


Notable Alumni

  • Amer Husni Lutfi
    Amer Husni Lutfi

    Dr. Amer Husni Lutfi is the current Ministry of Economy and Trade in Syria. He holds a Ph.D. degree in economic analysis from Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium....
     (b. 1956), economics, politician, Syrian minister of economy and trade
    Ministry of Economy and Trade

    The Ministry of Economy and Trade of Syria is the ministry that is responsible of drawing the state?s economic policy in general and trade policy in particular....
    .
  • Jules Anspach
    Jules Anspach

    Jules Victor Anspach was a Belgium politician, most well known for his renovations surrounding the covering of the Senne river.Anspach was born in Brussels into a family of Calvinist Genevan origin....
     (1829–1879), law, politician, Mayor of Brussels.
  • Amir Abbas Hoveida
    Amir Abbas Hoveida

    Amir-Abbas Hoveyda February 18, 1920 – April 7,1979) was an Iranian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Iran from January 27, 1965 to August 7, 1977....
    , Iranian Prime Minister
    Prime Minister of Iran

    Prime Minister of Iran was a political post in Iran had existed during several different periods of time starting with the Qajar era until its most recent revival from 1979 to 1989 following the Iranian Revolution....
  • Count Richard Goblet d'Alviella
    Richard Goblet d'Alviella

    Count Richard Goblet d'Alviella is a Belgium businessman, who studied economics at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles, , and obtained an MBA at the Harvard Business School....
    , Belgian businessman
  • Zénon-M. Bacq
    Zénon-M. Bacq

    Z?non Bacq was a Belgium radiobiologist and inventor. He studied medicine at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles , and became an MD in 1927. He studied at Harvard University , with a grant from the FNRS....
    , radiobiologist, laureate of the 1948 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Radu Balescu
    Radu Balescu

    Radu Balescu was a Romanian and Belgium scientist and professor at the Statistical and Plasma Physics group of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ....
    , Romanian and Belgian physicist, laureate of the 1970 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Didier Bellens
    Didier Bellens

    Didier Bellens is a Belgium businessman. He is the CEO of Belgacom, the leading telecommunications company of Belgium. He is married and has two children....
    , economics, CEO of Belgacom
    Belgacom

    The Belgacom Group, composed of Belgacom NV/SA and its subsidiaries Belgacom Mobile NV/SA , Skynet NV/SA, Telindus NV/SA and Belgacom International Carrier Services NV/SA, is the leading telecommunications company in Belgium....
  • Jules Bordet
    Jules Bordet

    File:Jules Bordet pi.pngJules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgium immunologist and microbiologist. The Genus Bordetella is named for him....
    , physician, laureate of the 1919 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....
     in Physiology or Medicine
  • Jean Brachet
    Jean Brachet

    Jean Louis Auguste Brachet was a Belgium biochemist who made a key contribution in understanding the role of RNA.Brachet was born in Etterbeek and he studied medicine at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles graduating in 1934....
     (1909-1998), medicine, biochemist
  • Robert Brout
    Robert Brout

    Robert Brout is a Belgian theoretical physicist who has made significant contributions in elementary particle physics....
    , Belgian physicist, laureate of the 2004 Wolf Prize
    Wolf Prize

    The 'Wolf Prize' is an international award, has been presented annually since 1978 to living science and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ......
  • Jean Bourgain
    Jean Bourgain

    Jean Bourgain is a Belgian mathematician, noted as a prolific problem-solver. He has been a faculty member at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey....
    , Belgian mathematician, laureate of the 1994 Fields Medal
    Fields Medal

    The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
  • Herman De Croo
    Herman De Croo

    Herman Francies Joseph De Croo is a Belgian liberal politician. He is a member of the Flemish Liberals and Democrats.He obtained a doctorate in law from the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles in 1961....
    , law, politician
  • Pierre Deligne
    Pierre Deligne

    Pierre Ren?, Viscount Deligne is a Belgium mathematician. He is known for fundamental work on the Weil conjectures, leading finally to a complete proof in 1973....
    , Belgian mathematician, laureate of the 1978 Fields Medal
    Fields Medal

    The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of Mathematicians of the International Mathematical Union, a meeting that takes place every four years....
  • Antoine Depage
    Antoine Depage

    Dr. Antoine Depage , was the Belgium royal surgeon, the founder and president of the Belgian Red Cross, and one of the founders of Scouting in Belgium....
    , Belgian surgeon
  • 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 ....
    , Belgian economist and politician.
  • Mathias Dewatripont
    Mathias Dewatripont

    Mathias Fran?ois Dewatripont is a Belgium economist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles . He studied economics at the ULB, and obtained a PhD at Harvard University in 1986....
    , Belgian economist, laureate of the 1998 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • François Englert
    François Englert

    Fran?ois Englert is a Belgian theoretical physicist. He was awarded, with Robert Brout and Peter Higgs, the High Energy and Particle Prize of the European Physical Society in 1997 and the Wolf Prize in Physics in 2004 for the mechanism which unifies short and long range interactions by generating massive gauge vector bosons....
    , Belgian physicist, laureate of the 2004 Wolf Prize
    Wolf Prize

    The 'Wolf Prize' is an international award, has been presented annually since 1978 to living science and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ......
  • Jacques Errera
    Jacques Errera

    Jacques Errera is a Belgium physicochemist, specialized in the molecular constitution of matter. He worked at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles . In 1938, he was awarded the Francqui Prize in Exact Sciences....
    , Belgian physicochemist, laureate of the 1938 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Louis Franck
    Louis Franck

    This article is about Louis Franck the lawyer and not about Louis Franck the frontman of Esthetic Education.Louis Marie Fran?ois Franck was a Belgium lawyer, Liberalism politician and statesman....
    , Belgian lawyer, liberal politician and statesman
  • Matyla Ghyka
    Matyla Ghyka

    Prince Matila Costiesco Ghyka , Royal Victorian Order, Military Cross , was a poet, novelist, mathematician, historian, and diplomat, and the Romanian Diplomatic rank in the United Kingdom during the late 1930s and until 1940....
    , Romanian poet, novelist, mathematician, historian, and diplomat
  • Nico Gunzburg
    Nico Gunzburg

    Nico Gunzburg was a Belgium lawyer and criminologist. In 1885, his parents fled form Latvia and settled in Antwerp, Belgium....
     (1882-1984), lawyer and criminologist.
  • Camille Gutt
    Camille Gutt

    Camille Gutt , born Camille Guttenstein, was a Belgium Jewish economist, politician, and industrialist. He served as the first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund from 6 May, 1946 to 5 May, 1951....
     (1884–1971), law, first Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
    International Monetary Fund

    The International Monetary Fund is an international organization that oversees the global financial system by following the macroeconomic policies of its member countries, in particular those with an impact on exchange rates and the balance of payments....
  • Marc Henneaux
    Marc Henneaux

    Marc Henneaux is a Belgium physicist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles . He studied physics at the ULB and obtained his PhD in 1980....
    , Belgian physicist, laureate of the 2000 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Enver Hoxha
    Enver Hoxha

    , was the authoritarian leader of the People's Republic of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the Secretary General of the Communism Albanian Party of Labour....
    , Albanian politician, leader of Communist Albania
  • Julius Hoste Jr.
    Julius Hoste Jr.

    Julius Hoste Jr. , was a Belgium businessman and liberal politician.He went to highschool at the Koninklijk Atheneum of Brussels. In 1902 he started at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles , where he obtained a law degree in 1907....
    , Belgian businessman and leading Flemish
    Flemish people

    The terms the Flemish people , and the Flemings or the Flemish denote the more than six million people of Flanders, the northern half of the country Belgium — and, as well, the majority of all Belgium; the terms Fleming and Flemings denote respectively a person and the people of that community....
     liberal politician
  • Paul Janson
    Paul Janson

    Paul Janson was a Belgium liberalism politician.Born in Herstal, Janson studied philosophy and law at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles. From an early age he was a strong supporter of electoral reform and stood on the progressive wing of the Liberalism in Belgium....
     (1840–1913), liberal politician.
  • Daniel Janssen
    Daniel Janssen

    Daniel Janssen is a Belgium businessman. He is a son of Charles-Emmanuel Janssen, liberal deputy of Walloon Brabant, and Maya Bo?l, daughter of the Vice-president of the Senate Pol Clovis Bo?l....
    , engineer, businessman
  • Henri La Fontaine
    Henri La Fontaine

    Henri La Fontaine, was a Belgium international lawyer and president of the International Peace Bureau from 1907 to 1943 who received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1913....
    , Belgian lawyer, laureate of the 1913 Nobel Prize for Peace
  • Jacques-François Lai, Belgian Nuclear Physicist
  • Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur, Belgian painter residing in Bali
    Bali

    Bali is an Indonesian island located at , the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lying between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. It is one of the country's 33 Provinces of Indonesia with the provincial capital at Denpasar towards the south of the island....
    , Indonesia
    Indonesia

    The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
  • Maurice Lippens, Belgian businessman
  • Lucien Lison
    Lucien Lison

    Lucien Alphonse Joseph Lison was a Belgian/Brazilian physician and biomedical scientist, considered the "father of histochemistry".Lison was born in Trazeguier, Belgium....
    , Belgian and Brazilian physician and biochemist, the father of histochemistry.
  • Paul Magnette
    Paul Magnette

    Paul Magnette is a Belgium politician for the Socialist Party and former political science professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles ....
    , Belgian political scientist, laureate of the 2000 Exceptionnal Francqui Prize for European Research
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Adolphe Max
    Adolphe Max

    Adolphe Eug?ne Jean Henri Max was a Belgium liberal politician and Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death.He graduated in law at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and entered the legal profession, besides doing journalistic work....
     (1869–1939), law, politician, Mayor of Brussels from 1909 until his death.
  • Françoise Meunier
    Françoise Meunier

    Fran?oise Meunier is a Belgium medical doctor and Director General of the EORTC .She graduated as a Medical Doctor at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles in 1974 and obtained a Master of Medical Oncology at the ULB in 1976....
    , medicine, Director General of the EORTC
    EORTC

    The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer or EORTC is an international non-profit organisation that develops, coordinates and stimulates cancer pharmacy and clinical research in Europe....
    .
  • Constantin Mille
    Constantin Mille

    Constantin Mille was a Romanian journalist, novelist, poet, lawyer, and Socialism militant, as well as a prominent human rights activist. A Marxism for much of his life, Mille was noted for his vocal support of peasant emancipation, for his early involvement with the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party , and his presence at the head of...
    , Romanian socialist militant and journalist
  • Axel Miller
    Axel Miller

    Axel Miller is a Belgium businessman. From January 2006 to September 2008, he was chief executive officer and chairman of the Management Board of Dexia S.A....
    , Belgian businessman, CEO of Dexia
    Dexia

    Dexia is a Belgium-France financial institution, also referred to as the Dexia Group, specializing in public finance. It was founded in 1996 through the merger of Cr?dit Communal de Belgique/Gemeentekrediet van Belgi? and Cr?dit Local de France ....
  • Roland Mortier
    Roland Mortier

    Roland Mortier is a Belgium scientist at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He is a member of the Acad?mie royale de Langue et de Litt?rature fran?aises de Belgique and the Acad?mie des Sciences Morales et Politiques....
    , Belgian philologist, laureate of the 1965 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • François Narmon
    François Narmon

    Fran?ois Narmon is a Belgium businessman and former president of Dexia and the Belgian Olympic Committee. From 2002 until 2004 he was a member of the International Olympic Committee....
    , economist, businessman
  • Amélie Nothomb
    Amélie Nothomb

    Am?lie Nothomb is a Belgium writer who writes in French language....
     (b.1967), Belgian writer, laureate of the 1999 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
    Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française

    Le Grand Prix du Roman is a France Literary award, created in 1918, and given each year by the Acad?mie fran?aise...
  • Paul Otlet
    Paul Otlet

    Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer and peace activist; he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science, a field he called "documentation"....
     (1868–1944), law, founding father of documentation
    Documentation

    Documentation may refer to the process of providing evidence or to the communicable material used to provide such documentation . Documentation may also refer to tools aiming at identifying documents or to the field of study devoted to the study of documents and bibliographies ....
  • Marc Parmentier
    Marc Parmentier

    Marc Parmentier is a Belgium scientist, and professor at the Institute of Multi-disciplinary Research in Human and Molecular Biology of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles ....
    , medicine, laureate of the 1999 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • Etienne Pays
    Etienne Pays

    Etienne Pays is a Belgium molecular biologist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. His research interest is on trypanosomes.He obtained a PhD in Zoology from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1974, and an Aggregation for Higher Education in 1984....
     (b. 1948), molecular biologist, laureate of the 1996 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
     and Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology
    Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology

    The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennal scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology and its applications....
  • Martine Piccart
    Martine Piccart

    Professor Martine Piccart-Gebhart is a Belgium medical doctor and President of the EORTC . She is head of chemotherapy at the Institut Jules Bordet in Brussels and associate professor in oncology at the ULB....
    , medicine, President of the EORTC
    EORTC

    The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer or EORTC is an international non-profit organisation that develops, coordinates and stimulates cancer pharmacy and clinical research in Europe....
    .
  • Marie Popelin
    Marie Popelin

    Marie Popelin was a Belgium feminist, educator, and advocate.Born in Schaerbeek into a middle-class family—one of her brothers was a doctor, another an army officer—Marie Popelin was well educated by the standards of the time and place....
     (1846–1913), law, feminist
  • Ilya Prigogine
    Ilya Prigogine

    Ilya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalization Belgium chemist and Nobel Prize noted for his work on dissipative system, complex systems, and irreversibility....
    , Belgian physicist and chemist, laureate of the 1955 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
    , and laureate of the 1977 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....
     in Chemistry
  • Eric Remacle
    Eric Remacle

    Eric Remacle is a Belgium scientist and professor at the Department of Political Sciences of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles . In 2000, together with Paul Magnette, he was awarded the Francqui Prize...
    , Belgian economist, laureate of the 2000 Exceptionnal Francqui Prize for European Research
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
  • David Ruelle
    David Ruelle

    David Pierre Ruelle is a Belgian-French mathematical physicist. He has worked on statistical physics and dynamical systems. With Floris Takens he coined the term strange attractor, and founded a new theory of turbulence....
    , Belgian and French mathematical physicist
  • Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler, Belgian philologist
  • Paul-Henri Spaak
    Paul-Henri Spaak

    Paul Henri Charles Spaak was a Belgium Socialist politician and statesman....
    , Belgian politician and one of the Founding fathers of the European Union
    Founding fathers of the European Union

    The Founding Fathers of the European Union are a number of men who have been recognised as making a major contribution to the development of European unity and what is now the European Union....
  • Isabelle Stengers
    Isabelle Stengers

    Professor Isabelle Stengers , is a Belgian philosopher and is the daughter of the historian Jean Stengers. She graduated in chemistry at the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles....
    , chemistry, philosophy
  • Jean Stengers
    Jean Stengers

    Jean Stengers was a Belgium historian.A precocious and brilliant student, Stengers entered the Free University of Brussels in 1939, at the age of 17....
     (1922-2002), historian
  • Jacques Tits
    Jacques Tits

    Jacques Tits is a France mathematician. He has written and cowritten a large number of papers on a number of subjects, principally group theory....
    , Belgian mathematician, laureate of the 1993 Wolf Prize
    Wolf Prize

    The 'Wolf Prize' is an international award, has been presented annually since 1978 to living science and artists for "achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples ......
     and of the 2008 Abel Prize
    Abel Prize

    The Abel Prize is an international prize presented annually by the King of Norway to one or more outstanding mathematicians. The prize is named after Norwegian people mathematician Niels Henrik Abel ....
  • Michel Vanden Abeele
    Michel Vanden Abeele

    Michel Vanden Abeele is a Belgium diplomat and Permanent representative of the European Union to the OECD. He was a member of the Coudenberg group, a Belgian federalist think tank....
    , economics, diplomat
  • Raoul Vaneigem
    Raoul Vaneigem

    Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgium writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines . After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in the Situationist International from 1961 to 1970....
    , Situationist theorist
  • Léon Van Hove
    Léon Van Hove

    L?on Van Hove was a Belgium physicist and a former Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, Particle physics and nuclear physics to cosmology....
     (1924-1990), physics, laureate of the 1958 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
    , Director General of the CERN
    CERN

    The European Organization for Nuclear Research , known as CERN , , is the world's largest particle physics laboratory, situated in the northwest suburbs of Geneva on the France-Switzerland border, established in 1954 in science....
     (1976-1980)
  • Jan Van Rijswijck
    Jan Van Rijswijck

    Jan Van Rijswijck , was a Belgium lawyer, liberalism politician and journalist....
     (1853-1906), law, mayor of Antwerp
    Antwerp

    ||-||-||-||}Antwerp is a city and municipality in Belgium and the capital of the Antwerp in Flanders, one of Belgium's three regions....
  • August Vermeylen, Belgian writer and literature critic
  • Raoul Warocqué
    Raoul Warocqué

    Raoul Warocqu? , was a Belgium industrialist of Wallonia. Raoul was the great-grandson of Nicolas Warocqu?, the founder of the Warocqu?-dynasty....
    , Belgian industrialist
  • Charles Woeste
    Charles Woeste

    Charles, Count Woeste was a Belgian Roman Catholic politician of German descent.He was born in Brussels, the son of Edouard Woeste, who was of Prussian descent and who became a naturalized Belgian on 15 January 1841....
     (1837-1922), lawyer and politician
  • Adamantios Vassilakis
    Adamantios Vassilakis

    Adamantios Vassilakis , is a distinguished Greek diplomat and negotiator.Adamantios Vassilakis is a graduate of the Commercial High School of Chios, Greece, and holds a Licence in Political and Diplomatic Sciences from the Free_University_of_Brussels....
     (b.1942), former Greek ambassador to the United Nations


Notable faculty

  • Eugene Goblet d'Alviella
    Eugene Goblet d'Alviella

    Eug?ne F?licien Albert, Count Goblet d'Alviella was a lawyer, liberal senator of Belgium and a Professor of the history of religions and rector of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles ....
     (1846-1925), historian and politician
  • Jules Bordet
    Jules Bordet

    File:Jules Bordet pi.pngJules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet was a Belgium immunologist and microbiologist. The Genus Bordetella is named for him....
     (1870-1961), physician, laureate of the 1919 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....
     in Physiology or Medicine
  • Albert Claude
    Albert Claude

    Albert Claude was a Belgium biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Liege ....
    , biologist, laureate of the 1974 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....
     in Physiology or Medicine
  • Paul Hymans
    Paul Hymans

    Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans , was a Belgium politician associated with the Liberal Party . He was the first President of the League of Nations, and served again as its president in 1932-33....
     (1865-1941), law, first President of the League of Nations
    League of Nations

    The League of Nations was an inter-governmental organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919?1920. At its greatest extent from 28 September 1934 to 23 February 1935, it had 58 members....
  • Ilya Prigogine
    Ilya Prigogine

    Ilya, Viscount Prigogine was a Russian-born naturalization Belgium chemist and Nobel Prize noted for his work on dissipative system, complex systems, and irreversibility....
    , (1917-2003), physicist and chemist, laureate of the 1955 Francqui Prize
    Francqui Prize

    The Francqui Prize is a prestigious Belgium scholarly and Science prize, awarded each year since 1933 by the Francqui Foundation in recognition of the achievements of a young Belgian scholar or scientist....
    , and laureate of the 1977 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....
     in Chemistry
  • Théophile de Donder
    Théophile de Donder

    Th?ophile Ernest de Donder was a Belgian mathematician and physicist famous for his 1923 work in developing correlations between the Newtonian concept of chemical affinity and the Gibbsian concept of Gibbs free energy....
    , (1872 – 1957), physicist and mathematician, and father of irreversible thermodynamics
    Thermodynamics

    In physics, thermodynamics is the study of the conversion of heat energy into different forms of energy ; different energy conversions into heat energy; and its relation to macroscopic variables such as temperature, pressure, and volume....


See also

  • 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....
  • Solvay Business School
    Solvay Business School

    The Solvay Business School is a business school accredited by the European Quality Improvement System and Association of MBAs, and is part of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, in Belgium....
  • 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....
  • BioVallée
    BioVallée

    BioVall?e is a Belgium association of research groups of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles and the Universit? de Mons-Hainaut together with several biotech companies comprising a biotechnopole....
  • Aéropole Science Park
    Aéropole Science Park

    The 'A?ropole Science Park' is a business incubator and science park located in Charleroi, Wallonia . Two research institutes of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles are located at the science park, the Institut de biologie et de m?decine mol?culaires and the Institut d'immunologie m?dicale , which in itself are part of the Biopole ULB...
  • Institut Jules Bordet
    Institut Jules Bordet

    Institut Jules Bordet is a hospital and research institute of the Universit? Libre de Bruxelles which specializes in oncology. It is located in Brussels, Belgium....
  • Top Industrial Managers for Europe
    Top Industrial Managers for Europe

    Top Industrial Managers for Europe is a network of more than fifty engineering schools and faculties and technical universities.It promotes graduate student exchanges and double degrees throughout Europe....


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