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Curriculum Vitae
(14/08/1904 - 23/03/1974)
Born at
Charleroi on august 14, 1904
University
diplomas :
Doctor in physical sciences and mathematics, Université de l'Etat à
Liège, 1926
Functions :
Professor at the Nordisk Institute for teoretisk Atomfysik, Copenhagen:
theoretical physics
Curriculum vitae :
Associated of the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1929-1930
Part-time lecturer at the Université de l'Etat à Liege, 1931-1937
Member of the Sections Physics-Chemistry and Mathematical Sciences of
Jurys of the Prizes Louis Empain, 1938
Professor, 1937-1940
Professor at the Utrecht University, 1940-1947
Professor at the University of Manchester, 1947-1958
Editor in chief of the Nuclear Physics, 1955
Professor at Nordisk Institute for teoretisk Atomfysik, Copenhagen, 1958
Scientific director of the Laboratory of High Energies of the
Interuniversity Institute of Nuclear Sciences, 1961
Member of the scientific Commission of the Interuniversity Institute of
Nuclear Sciences, 1964
Scientific distinctions :
Laureate of the Concours des bourses de voyage du Gouvernement, 1926
Prize A. De Potter, 1930
Francqui Prize, 1949
Member of the Société royale des Sciences de Liège, 1932
Member of the Belgian National comittee of History of Sciences, 1933
Member of the royal Academy of Sciences and the Letters of Denmark, 1951
Corresponding Member of the Academia Brasileira de Ciencias, 1953
Member of the Société européenne de Culture, 1953
Associated member of the Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et
des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, 1959
Member of the Comittee of Gravitation and Relativity, 1959
Chairman of the Danish Comittee of History and Philosophy of Sciences,
1964
Member of the international Academy of History of Sciences, 1966
Member of the Scientific comittee of the Instituts internationaux Ernest
Solvay, 1967
Doctor honoris causa of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1965
Doctor honoris causa of the Copenhagen University, 1965
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Report of the Jury
Considérant la haute portée
scientifique des travaux de physique théorique de Monsieur le Professeur
Léon ROSENFELD, et spécialement le caractère fondamental de ses
recherches sur la théorie quantique de la matière et des radiations, et
sur les forces nucléaires,
considérant la renommée
internationale que ses travaux lui ont value,
décide de conférer le Prix Francqui
1949 à Monsieur le Professeur Léon ROSENFELD.
Jury members :
Professor J.
Hadamard
Emeritus
Professor of the Collège de France, Paris
Chairman
Professor L.P.
Bouckaert
Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain
Professor Th. De
Donder
Emeritus Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Professor L. D'Or
Professor at the Université de l'Etat à Liège
Professor J. Errera
Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Professor C.J.
Gorter
Professor at the Leyde University
Professor H.A.
Kramers
Professor at the Leyde University
Professor P.
Putzeys
Professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain
Professor E.K.
Rideal
Professor at the Royal Institution, London
Professor R.
Wurmser
Professor at the Université de Paris
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