Heineman Prize
DOI: 10.1063/1.3058294
Léon Van Hove of the European Organization for Nuclear Research was awarded the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics on April 25 during the spring meeting of the American Physical Society in Washington, D.C. Dr. Van Hove, who has been leader of the Theoretical Division at the CERN laboratory since September 1960, received the award in recognition of his contributions to statistical mechanics and to field theory, as examples of outstanding publication in the field of mathematical physics. He was born in Brussels in 1924, received his doctorate from the University of Brussels, and is a former professor of theoretical physics at the University of Utrecht. He spent two years in the United States at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
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