Titulars
2023-2024
Jean-Marc DEWAELE
Dept. of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London.
Sciences humaines, Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism.
VUB-UNamur-UGent
Ursula HEISE
Dept. of English, UCLA.
Sciences humaines, Environmental humanities
UGent-KULeuven-ULB-UCLouvain
Inaugural Lecture 2 October 2024 : Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Realist Storytelling
Ernesto SAN MARTIN
Facultad de Matematicas, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.
Sciences humaines et exactes, Modélisation statistique.
UCLouvain – KULeuven – UGent – Uliège
Inaugural Lecture 17 October 2024 : From Social Analysis to Political Influence: Reinventing Statistical Modeling
Hannu Tauno Tapani TOIVONEN
Dept. of Computer Science.,University of Helsinki.
Sciences exactes, Data mining and Computational Creativity.
VUB-UGent-UA-UCLouvain-KULeuven
2022-2023
Patrick FOWLER FRS
Department of Chemistry – University of Sheffield – UK
Exact Sciences – Theoretical Chemistry
KULeuven – UGent – VUB – UMons – UNamur
Inaugurale Lecture April 24, 2024 : In search of Coulson’sLost Theorem.
Louis SASS
Department of Clinical Psychology – Rutgers University – USA
Humanities– Philosophical psychology and psychopathology
UGent – ULB – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture on May 23, 2023 : Enigmas of Subjectivity : On the necessity of phenomenology for psychology and psychiatry.
Christopher STONE
School of Social, Historical and Political Studies – University of Wolverhampton, UK
Humanities – Interpretology
Saint-Louis – UNamur – KULeuven – UCLouvain
Inaugurale Lecture on February 8, 2024 : Evidence-based Practice: Research-Informed Interpretation. (conducted in International Sign and interpreted into English, as well as the sign languages of French-speaking Belgium LSFB and Flanders VGT).
2021-2022
David SCHEFFER
Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law – Chicago, USA
Humanities – Law (Human rights, international criminal law, victimology)
KULeuven – VUB – UA – UGent – Saint Louis
Inaugural Lecture on May 4, 2022 : Revisiting atrocity crimes in international law and international relations – origins and developments.
Karel MERTENS
Federal Reserve Bank Dallas – USA
Humanities – Causal inference in macroeconomics. Macroeconomic and redistributive effects of fiscal policy and taxation
UNamur – UA – UGent – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture on April 18, 2023 : Causal inference in macroeconomics
William MARX
Collège de France
Humanities – Comparative literature -Literary research-Gender studies-French intellectual traditions and Anglo-saxon world
UA – UGent – ULB
Inaugural Lecture on October 2022 : Au-delà de la littérature mondiale.
International conference on 1th and 2nd/12/2022 : Comparative literature and possible texts.
Bruce CONNELL
York University, Glendon College – Toronto, Canada
Humanities – Language Endangerment and Language Documentation. Phonetic descriptions of certain African Languages. Articulatory phonetics.
UA – UGent
Inaugural Lecture on April 19, 2022 : Language Endangerment and Language Death in the 21st century.
Final Symposium on December 9, 2022 : Diversity and documentation of speech sounds in languages of the world.
Cecil KONIJNENDIJK (Collen-Francqui)
University of British Columbia – New York, USA
Biological & Medical Sciences– Urban Forestry, environmental sciences and biomedical sciences
KULeuven – UCLouvain
Inaugural Lecture on April 19, 2022 : Urbanising the Forest, Reforesting the City ? – Emerging forest urbanisms and discourses in urban forestry
Richard SHINE (Collen-Francqui)
Macquarie University, Australia
Biological & Medical Sciences – Evolutionary biology, life history evolution, phenotypic and developmental plasticity, sexual dimorphism and spatial sorting.
UA – ULg – VUB – UGent
Inaugural Lecture on March 7, 2023 : Snakes, toads and new approaches to conservation. MOVED TO A LATER DATE.
Class of Excellence I on March 21, 2023
Class of Excellence II on April 18, 2023
Symposium and Celebration Lecture on May 25, 2023
2020-2021
Ignatios ANTONIADIS
Albert Einstein Center (ITP) – Bern – Zwitserland & LPTHE, Sorbonne University – Paris, France
Exact Sciences – Theoretical high Energy physics, supergravity and superstring theories, vacuum structure and cosmological applications (inflation, dark ernergy & garvitational waves).
KULeuven – ULB – VUB
Inaugural Lecture on April 28, 2021 (online) : Challenges in Particle Physics and Cosmology
Final workshop on July 5-6, 2021 (online) : Challenges in string and supersymmetric
Christian MESSIER (Collen-Francqui)
Université du Québec, Dept. des Sciences Biologiques – Canada
Biological & Medical Sciences – Forest Ecology and Management, forest engineering, forest as complex adaptive systems, complex social ecological system with hierarchical structures and Energy flows.
KULeuven – UCLouvain – UGent – ULB
Inaugural Lecture on October 12, 2021 : The functional complex network approach to foster the resilience of world forests to global environmental threats.
David S. ELLSWORTH (Collen-Francqui)
Western Sydney University, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment – Australia
Biological & Medical Sciences – Global change Ecology, Plant Ecophysiology, plant response to climate change.
UGent – UA – ULg – VUB – ULB – UHasselt – UCLouvain
Inaugural Lecture on September 2022 : To save or squander: how should we manage our natural capital under climate change ?
Closing Symposium on December 8, 2022 : Natural capital research for the coming decade. WITH INVITED PARTICIPANTS ONLY
Thomas SPIJKERBOER
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Humanities – International Law-migration law-making asylm claims on gender-related grounds-border deaths in the Medtiterranean-erasure of global south in international law.
UGent – UA – UCLouvain – ULB – Saint Louis Brussels – VUB – KULeuven – UHasselt
Inaugural Lecture on January 20, 2021 : Confronting the colonial structure of international migration law
Closing seminar on June 1, 2021 (online)
2019-2020
Olivier SCAILLET
University of Geneva, Finance Research Institute – Zwitserland
Human Sciences – Econometrics applied to big data in finance and insurance
VUB – UNamur – UCLouvain – ULg – UGent – ULB
Inaugurale Lecture on February 20, 2020 : The value added from active fund management
Janis WITLOCK
Cornell University, Research scientist & associate – Director of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Reseach – USA
Human Sciences – Self-injury in Adolescence and Youg Adults
VUB – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture on March 17, 2022 : The mental challenges of adolescents in the digital age
Workshop on April 21, 2022 : Masterclass Translational Research.
Rens BOD
Amsterdam University – The Netherlands
Human Sciences – Computiational Linguistics-history of science
UGent – UA
Inaugural Lecture on June 24, 2021 (online) : Digital Pattern Searching in the Humanities
Anthony ROLLET
Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering – USA
Exact Sciences – Quantification of microstructures-experimental mesoscale modeling of materials-application to 3D-printing of metal alloys. Applied Science – Materials Science and Engineering.
UGent – KULeuven – UCLouvain – ULg
Inaugural Lecture on March 10, 2022 (online) : 3D pinrting : will it revolutionize manufacturing and why is it the best thing in 50 years for materials science ?
2018-2019
Vincent MEUNIER
Jonsson Rowland Science Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy – USAE
Exact Sciences – Physics, Applied Physics & Astronomy
UNamur – UCLouvain – ULg – UA
Inaugural Lecture on October 26, 2019 : The Role of Low-Dimensional Materials in the Second Quantum Revolution
Symposium on December 17 & 18, 2019 : Computational and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Brendan McKAY
Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University – Australia
Exact Sciences
UGent – UMons – ULB
Inaugural Lecture June 4, 2019 : A scientist’s adventure in pseudoscience : the Strange case of the Bible Codes
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Joland JETTEN
School of Psychology, University of Queensland – Australia
Human Sciences
ULB – UCLouvain – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture December 18, 2018 : Unlocking the social cure : how group memberships are key to health and well-being
Philippe DE WALS (Collen-Francqui)
Centre de recherche de l’Institut universitaire de cardiologie et de pneumologie de Québec (IUCPQ) – Canada
Biological and Medical Sciences
UA – ULB – UGent – UHasselt
Inaugural Lecture May 24,2022 : Factors shaping immunization programs: the role of experts and of contextual factors?
Seminar on September 26, 2022 : Prevention of pneumococcal diseases in Belgium
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Seminar on November 9, 2022 : Vaccine hesitancy : a European Perspecive.
Lecture on November 17, 2022 : Universal versus targeted influenza vaccination strategy & The covid-19 vaccination saga in Canada.
Lecture 17 novembre 2022
Final Symposium February 2, 2023 : Off-label use of vaccines saves lives and money.
2017-2018
Alexander GILLESPIE
University of Waikato – New Zealand
Human Sciences – EU Environmental law
UGent – UCLouvain
Inaugural Lecture 05/12/2018 : « 2050: The Challenge of Peace and Sustainability in a Fragmented International Context ».
François CREPEAU
Mc Gill University – Canada
Human Sciences – Droit International – intérêts des Etats et droits fondamentaux des migrants
UCLouvain – UA-UGent-ULB-ULg-Université Saint Louis
Inaugural Lecture February 8, 2018 : Mobilité et diversité migratoires : nouveaux horizons des droits de l’homme
Affiche François Crépeau
Symposium May 4, 2018 : Contrôles et hospitalités. Vers des politiques migratoires qui renforcent la démocratie contemporaine.
Clément SANCHEZ
Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Collège de France
Exact Sciences – Chemistry of Hubrid Materials – Nanomaterials and hybrids for energy, health and environment, bioinspired materials
UCLouvain – UNamur – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture January 11, 2018 : Learning from nature : Towards a bio-inspired materials Science
John F. MARKO (Collen-Francqui)
Northwestern University – Chicago – USA
Exact Sciences – Physics of DNA and chromosomes – dynamical and structural properties of chromosome
KULeuven – ULB – UHasselt
Inaugural Lecture March 7, 2018 : Mechanics of DNA, chromosomes and cell nuclei – F.Marko Affiche Inaugural lecture
2016-2017
Regius Professor Neil WALKER
University of Edinburgh – United Kingdom
Human Sciences – Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations
KULeuven – ULB
Inaugural Lecture February 27, 2017 : Europe : Imagining the first post-state Polity
Steven VALLAS
Northeastern University, Boston – USA
Human Sciences – Sociology & Anthropology
KULeuven – UHasselt – UCLouvain – VUB – UGent – ULG – UA – ULB
Inaugural Lecture September 21, 2017 : Flexible Employment Regimes and Social Inequalities
Charles S. Sydnor Professor Robert CALDERBANK
Duke University, Director of the Information Initiative, Was Professor Princeton and vice president Research AT&T – USA – USA
Exact Sciences – Electrical engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics
VUB – UGent – KULeven – UCLouvain – ULB
Inaugural Lecture January 18, 2018 : Remembering Shannon Prof. dr. Robert Calderbank poster
2015-2016
Michelle CRASKE
University of California, Los Angeles – USA
Human Sciences – Psychology
KULeuven – UGent
Inaugural Lecture May 3, 2017 : Optimising extinction Learning during exposure therapy
Closing Symposium September 13, 2017 : Behandeling van angst : nieuwe inzichten voor de praktijk
Wolfgang SCHÖN
Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, München – Germany
Human Sciences – Public Finance
UA – ULg
Inaugural Lecture March 16, 2017 : The Future of International Tax Law
Closing Symposium September 8, 2017 : EU tax Policy after Brexit and Trump
Rodney FOX
Iowa State University, Ames – USA
Chemical & Biological Engineering
UGent – ULB – UCLouvain – Von Karman Institute – Belgian Combustion Institute – Studiecentrum voor Kernenergie
Inaugural Lecture December 7, 2016 : Multiscale Modeling in Computational Fluid Dynamics
Michael ZALUTSKY (Collen-Francqui International Professor)
Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina – USA
Neuro-Oncolgy Research
VUB – ULg – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture January 12, 2017 : Targeted radionuclide therapy
2014-2015
Peter VEKILOV
University of Houston – USA, Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and dept. of Chemistry
Exact Sciences
VUB – ULB – FUNDP
Inaugural Lecture March 3, 2015 : Non-Classical Nucleation of Crystals
Philippe LE PRESTRE
Université Laval – Canada, Dept de Sciences Politiques
Human Sciences
FUSL – UGent – ULB
Inaugural Lecture October 6, 2015 : Global environmental governance – Analytical questions and policy implications
2013-2014
Shanto IYENGAR
Stanford University – USA
Human Sciences – Political Sciences
UA – ULB – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture March 31, 2014 : Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines. The Polarization of America
Francis HALZEN
University of Wisconsin, Dept. of Physics – USA
Exact Sciences – Physics
VUB – ULB – UGent – UMons – UA – ULg – KULeuven
Inaugural Lecture May 12, 2014 : Extreme Astrophysics with Neutrinos : IceCube at the South Pole
Francqui-Solvay workshop on ‘neutrinos: from reactors to the cosmos’.Brussels, 27-29 May 2015
David PAULS
Harvard Medical School – USA
Biological and Medical Sciences – Psychiatry
KULeuven – UGent – ULB – UHasselt
Inaugural Lecture January 24, 2014 : The genetics of neurodevelopmental disorders : past, present and future
2012-2013
Victor STOICHITA
Fribourg University, Dept. of Historical Sciences – Switzerland
Human Sciences – History of art and archeology
UCLouvain – ULB – KULeuven – UA – ULg
Inaugurale Lecture February 14, 2014 : Quand la vision s’incarne : images des visions et visions d’images
Bruce Ernest LOGAN
The Pennsylvania State University, Dept. of Civil and Environment Engineering – USA
Exact Sciences – Environmental technology
UGent – UA – UCLouvain
Inaugurale Lecture Oktober 16, 2013 : Microbial Fuel Cell and Reverse Electrodialysis Technologie for Renewable Power Generation From Biomass and salinity Gradients
Kardar MEHRAN
Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), Dept. of Physics – USA
Exact Sciences – condensed matter physics
KULeuven – ULg
Inaugurale Lecture August 2, 2013 : The force of nothing : Attraction and Repulsion in the Quantum Void
2011-2012
Heikki PIHLAJAMAKI
University of Helsinki, faculty of Law/Legal History/Comparative Law – Finland
Human Sciences – Legal History/Comparative Law
UGent – VUB
Inaugural Lecture Oktober 24, 2012 : Lay Judges n criminal trials : Historical remnants or living law? Comparative remarks on western legal history – Colloquium March 15 & 16, 2013 Laymen as Judges in European Courts – Comparative Legar History of procedural law in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Patty GERSTENBLITH
DePaul University College of Law, director center for art, museum & cultural heritage law – USA
Human Sciences – Art and Cultural heritage law
KULeuven – ULB – UHasselt – UA
2010-2011
Jostein GRIPSRUD
University of Bergen, Dept. of Information Science and Media Studies – Norway
Human Sciences – Media and Communication Studies
VUB – UGent – ULB
Inaugural Lecture March 14, 2011 : Till the public do us part….National identity and the public sphere
John KING
North Carolina State University, Dept. of Forestry and Environmental Resources – USA
Biological and Medical Sciences – Forest Ecology/Tre Ecophysiology
UA – UHasselt – UCLouvain – KUL
Inaugural Lecture May 2, 2011 : Role of forests for industry, society and environment
2009-2010
Gert J. J. BIESTA
University of Stirling, Institute of Education, Scotland – UK
Human Sciences – Education – Citizenship, democracy and civic learning.
UGent – KUL
Inaugural Lecture February 17, 2011 : Learning in Public Places : Civic Learning for the 21st Century – Colloquium June 7 & 8, 2011 : Learning in Public Places : Theorising and Researching Civic Learning
Jerrold LEVINSON
University of Maryland, Dept. of Philosophy – USA
Human Sciences – Philosophy
KUL – UCL – ULB – UGent – UA
Ingrid DAUBECHIES
Princeton Univ., Dept. of Mathematics & Program in Applied Computational Mathematics – USA Exact Sciences – Applied Mathematics
VUB – ULB – UCL – UGent.
Inaugural Lecture February 1, 2010 : Discrete differential geometry and measuring similarity between surfaces
Uzy SMILANSKY
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot – Israël
Exact Sciences – Theoretical Physics – Physics of Complex Systems
ULB – UCL
2008-2009
Martha HOWELL
Columbia University, New York – USA
Human Sciences – History
ULB – UGent – UA
Inaugural Lecture November 18, 2008 : Commerce Before Capitalism : market culture in cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1600
Petros MAVROIDIS
Columbia University, New York – USA en Université de Neufchâtel, Zwitserland
Human Sciences – International, public right
KUL – UCL
Inaugural Lecture October 6, 2009 : A Preference for Multilateralism ? A Review of the WTO’s Inability to Discipline Preferential Trade A
David HARVEY
City University of New York, New York City – USA
Human Sciences – Social and Economical Geography
KUL – UGent – VUB – ULB – UCL – ULg – FUNDP
Patricia ZAMBRYSKI
University of California, Berkley – USA
Biological and Medical Sciences – Plant en Microbiële Biologie, Celbiologie, Genetica
UGent – VUB
Inaugural Lecture June 25, 2009 : Agrobacterium and plasmodesmata : mediators of transport of nucleic acid and protein into and between plant cells. lecture program
2007-2008
Erik DEMAINE
M.I.T. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Cambridge – USA
Exact sciences : Computer sciences : Algorithmic Research in Geometric folding and Inka Khipu
ULB – UCL – FUSAGX – VUB
Inaugural Lecture November 19, 2008 : Mathematics meets Art, Puzzles, and Magic : Fun with Algorithms
Marcel MAZOYER
Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon – France
Biological sciences: Agronomy
ULB – UCL – FUSAGX
Inaugural Lecture April 21, 2008 : La fracture agricole et alimentaire mondiale, causes, conséquences et perspectives
Michael THERIEN
Duke University, Durham, NC – USA
Exact sciences – Chemistry
KUL – FUNDP – Univ. HASSELT – UMH – ULB
Inaugural Lecture September 19, 2008 : In Vitro Diagnostics and In Vivo Optical Imaging Enable by Brightly Soft-Matter Nanoscale Vesicles – International Symposium May 18-19, 2009 : Molecular and Nanoscale Materials for Electronics, Optics, and Médicine
2006-2007
Marc KEIRSE
Flinders University, Adelaide – Australie
Biological & medical sciences – Gynecology Obstetric
KUL – Acad. Centr. voor huisartsgeneeskunde (Leuven) – UA
Inaugural Lecture December 10, 2007 : Evidence-Based Medicine : vivid, livid or rigid ?
Vivien Ann SCHMIDT
Boston University – USA
Human sciencs – Politics
ULB – UCL
Symposium May 15, 2007 : The Contingent Legitimacy of the European Union
Henk VAN DER VORST
Utrecht University – The Netherlands
Exact sciences – Plasma-astrofysica
KUL – UGent – VUB – ULB – UCL – UA
Inaugural Lecture November 14, 2006 : Big problems, beautiful solutions – Symposium April 20, 2007 : Krylov methodes
2005-2006
Miguel ABENSOUR
Université de Paris 7 – France
Human sciences– Political philsophy
ULB – ULg – UCL
Inaugural Lecture December 1, 2005 : Du bon usage de l’hypothèse de la servitude volontaire
Geert BEKAERT
Columbia University, New York – USA
Human sciences– International Economy
University of Gent – University of Antwerp – Catholic University of Leuven
Marc VIDAL
Danna Farber Cancer Institute, Boston – USA
Biological & medical sciences : ELLE – Evolving Life Life Evolving
FUNDP – ULB – FUSAGX
Inaugural Lecture May 9, 2006 : Interactome networks – Symposium December 21, 2006 : ELLE – Evolving Life Life Evolving
2004-2005
Leon CHUA
University of California, Berkeley – USA
Exact Sciences : Nonlinear circuits and cellular neural network
KUL – VUB – UCL – ULg
Inaugural Lecture June 22, 2005 : A nonlinear dynamics perspective of wolfram’s new kind of Science, From bernoulli shift to Universal Computation – Symposium July 13, 2006 : What’s new in Wolfram ‘s new kind of science ?
Joaquim GOMIS
Universitat de Barcelona – Spain
Exact Sciences : Theoretical physics
KUL – VUB – ULB
Inaugural Lecture Februari 11, 2005 : Gravity, Strings & Branes
William ICKES
University of Texas, Arlington – USA
Human Sciences
UGent – UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 9, 2005 – Empathy and Everyday Mind Reading: Fact or Fiction ?
Robert MNOOKIN
Harvard Law School, Cambridge – USA
Human sciences – Law and Alternativ Dispute Resolution
KUL – VUB – ULB – ULg
Inaugural Lecture March 21, 2006 : Bargaining in the Shadow of the Law. The Lawyer as Negotiator – Symposium November 14, 2006
Dorit RAVID
Tel Aviv University – Israel
Human sciences – Psycholinguistics
UA – ULB
Symposium December 2-3, 2005 : on the Development of Noun Plurals
2003-2004
Nodia GHIA
Caucasian Institute, Tbilisi – Republic of Georgia
Human sciences : Political Sciences : democratization theory and nationalism
VUB – KUL – UA – UCL
Inaugurale Lecture September 13, 2004 : European Values, Democratization and conflict Resolution : What is the Impact of Eurpeanization on EU Peripheries ?
Stephen PORTNOY
University of Illinois – USA
Exact sciences : Statistics
ULB – KUL – UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 7, 2005 : Conditional quantiles : Reveling in the charm of variety
Peter TAYLOR
Lougborough University, Leicestershire – United Kingdom
Exact sciences : Geography
UGent – KUL – VUB
Inaugural Lecture October, 2004 : World-Systems Analysis and Globalization » – Symposium January 13-14, 2005
Alberto VARVARO
Universita di Napoli – Italy
Human sciences : Philology
ULg– UGent – UCL – FUNDP
Inaugural Lecture October 23, 2003 : Le Livre IV des Chroniques de Jean Froissart : problèmes d’édition et problèmes d’interprétation
2002-2003
Thomas BECKER
University of Delaware, Newark – USA
Human sciences
UCL – ULg – UGent
Inaugural Lecture February 13, 2003 : The multiple Commitments Approach to Understanding Employee Attachment – Symposium May 28, 2003 : Conceptual and methodological advances in the study of employee commitment
John J. JONAS
McGill University Montréal, Quebec – Canada
Exact sciences : sciences of materials
UGent – KUL – UCL
Inaugural Lecture November 28, 2002 : The effect of Dynamic Strain Aging and Rate Sensitivity on Texture Formation under warm rolling conditions – Symposium May 9, 2003 : Current trends in advance metals precessing and modelling
Carlo OSSOLA
Collège de France, Paris – France
Literary sciences
KUL – UA – VUB
Inaugural Lecture February 19, 2003 : L’inachevé dans les arts
Symposium October 13, 2003 : L’avenir de nos origines : problèmes de tradition des textes
Jean-Claude ROEGIERS
University of Oklahoma – USA
Exact sciences
ULg – KUL – ULB
Inaugural Lecture January 23, 2003 : Ingénieur Pétrolier….discipline en voie de disparition…ou domaine d’avenir ? – Symposium June 10-13, 2003 : Naturally fractured Rock Formations
2001-2002
Marcel DETIENNE
John Hopkins University, Baltimore – USA
Human sciences : Anthropology
ULg – UCL – ULB
Inaugural Lecture December 9, 2002 : Les Dieux du politique dans les cités Grecques
Symposium May 19-20, 2003 : La diète des Dieux une approche comparative des polythéismes
Hannes LICHTE
Dresden University – Germany
Exact Sciences : Physics
UA – KUL
Inaugural Lecture June 28, 2002:The Electron :Particle and Wave – Symposium February4, 2005
Gary J. LONG
University of Missouri, Rolla – USA
Exact sciences : Physics
ULg – UMH – UGent – ULB – KUL – UCL
Symposium June 4, 2003 : Nuclear techniques for the characterization of modern magnetic materials
2000-2001
Joseph APPELBAUM
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv – Israel
Exact sciences – Applied physics : electricity
KUL – VUB
Symposium February 5-6, 2002
Sir Anthony CHEETHAM
University of California – USA
Exact sciences : Chimistry – Novel Material
FUNDP – KUL
Inaugural Lecture January 28, 2002 : Mendleev’s palette : « recent developments in inorganic materials
John Alfred COLLINS
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario – Canada
Biological & medical sciences : Obstetric Gynecology
VUB – KUL
Inaugural Lecture November 14, 2000 : Evidence-based medicine : a way out of conflict
John DEVINE
University of Cape Town, Cape Town – Zouth Africa
Human sciences : Maritime law
VUB – Ugent
Final Conference 17 Mai 2002 : Protection of the marine environment
Janus KOZLOWSKI
University of Cracau – Poland
Human sciences : Prehistory
ULg – Ugent – VUB
Inaugural Lecture March 22, 2001 : l’origine de l’homme moderne : paléontologie humaine et palethnologie – Symposium June 26, 2001 : L’Histoire de l’Homme préhistorique en Europe
Norman MARCH
Oxford University – United Kingdom
Exact Sciences : Chemistry
UA – VUB
Inaugural Lecture April 18, 2001 : Quantum mechanics has accounted for a large part of physics and the whole of chemistry – Symposium Febraury 1, 2002 – The Scientific Research Comunity : Quantum Chemistry : fundamental and applied aspects of Density functional theory
1999-2000
William J. LUCAS
University of California – USA
Biological & medical sciences : Biology
UA – UGent – UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 2, 2001 : RNA-Based information superhighway : evolution and function – Symposium 8 June 2001 : Information processing systems in plants
Jana JURECKOVA
Charles University, Prague – Czech Republic
Exact sciences
ULB – LUC – VUB
Inaugural Lecture March 2, 2000 : Stochastics in Prague : a historical perspective, and some personal recollections – Symposium September 8-9, 2000 : Brussels-Prague Statistics Seminar
1998-1999
Keith BEVEN
University of Lancaster – United Kingdom
Exact Sciences
KUL – VUB
Inaugural Lecture January 20, 2000 : Environmental modelling : an uncertain future ?
Symposium April 12-15, 2000 : The future of Distributed Modelling in Hydrology
Paul J. DE WEER
University of Philadelphia – U.S.A
Human sciences : Sociology Physiology
KUL – ULB – LUC
Inaugural Lecture October 13, 2000 : Biophysical properties, regulation and physiological role of the Na/K ATPase
Marshall LINDHEIMER
University of Chicago – U.S.A
Biological & medical sciences : Gynecology Obstetric
KUL – ULg
Inaugural Lecture September 24, 1999 : Research in academic clinical medicine –Symposium December 18, 2000 : Medical problems in pregnancy
Nasser PEYGHAMBARIAN
University of Arizona, Tucson – U.S.A
Exact sciences : Physics – Optic
KUL – ULg – UMH
Inaugural Lecture June 14, 1999 : Plastic Electronics and optoelectronics
1997-1998
Derek BREWER
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
Human sciences : Literature
ULg – KUL – UCL
Inaugural Lecture January 12, 1998
Thomas S. FERGUSON
University of California, Los Angeles – U.S.A.
Exact sciences : Mathematics
ULB – KUL – LUC
Inaugural Lecture March 20, 1997 : Optimal Stopping and Applications
Samuel REFETOFF
University of Chicago, Illinois – U.S.A.
Biological & medical sciences : Molecular endocrinology
ULB – UCL
Herbert WAGNER
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München – Allemagne
Sciences Exactes : Physique
UA – KUL
1996-1997
Eddie COHEN
The Rockefeller University, New York – U.S.A.
Theoretical physics
ULB – KUL – UCL
Yuri Ivanovich MANIN
Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn – Germany
Exact sciences : Mathematics
UA – KUL – Ugent – LUC – VUB
Inaugural Lecture November 28, 1996 – Symposium March 12-14, 1997
James Vernon ODOM
West Virginia University, Morgantown, – U.S.A
Biological & medical sciences : Psychology of vision
KUL – UGent
Inaugural Lecture December 3, 1996 – Symposium July 1996
Georges ROSSBrandeis University, Cambridge, Massachusetts – U.S.A.
Sciences Humaines : Sociologie – Relations Professionnelles
ULB – UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 28, 1998
Mark SNYDER
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, – U.S.A.
Human sciences : Psychology
UCL – KUL – ULB
1995-1996
Frederick A. FREY
M.I.T. – Cambridge, Massachusetts – U.S.A.
Exact sciences : Petrology-Geochemistry
ULB – KUL
Inaugural Lecture November 7, 1996
David R.G. MILNER
University of Auckland – New Zealand
Biological & medical sciences
KUL – UCL
Edgar THILL
Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Human sciences – Psychology of Sports
ULB – UCL – VUB
1994-1995
Donald DAVIDSON
University of California, Berkeley – U.S.A
Human Sciences : Phylosophy – The sources of objectivity
KUL
Inaugural Lecture October 17, 1994 – The sources of objectivity
Yngve ÖHRN
University of Uppsala, Sweden and University of Florida, Gainesville, – U.S.A.
Exact sciences : Physics
FUNDP– ULg – UA
Rodney WATSON
University of Manchester, West Yorkshire – United Kingdom
Human sciences : Sociology
UCL – ULg – UA
Robert WILLIAMSON
Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne – Australia
Biological and Medical Sciences
UA – VUB – UGent
1993-1994
Karl-Hermann MEYER
University of Mainz – Germany
Biological and medical sciences : Medicine
KUL
Gilles NADEAU
University of Moncton – Canada
Human sciences : Psychology
ULB
Inaugural Lecture March 23, 1994 – Identification et choix des critères et des indicateurs de qualité dans l’enseignement supérieur
Bernard LEBLEU
Univ. des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc de Montpellier II – France
Biological & medical science : Molecular genetic
FUNDP
Constantin KELK
Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht – The Netherlands
Human sciences : Law
VUB
Inaugural Lecture February 4, 1994 : Veranderende mensbeelden in het strafrecht
Henri KAGAN
Université de Paris-Sud – France
Catalyse asymétrique et chimie organométallique
UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 4, 1994 : La gauche et la droite : du monde vivant à la chimie
Jacobus Adrianus Antonius VAN DOORN
Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam – The Netherlands
Human Sciences – Sociology
UA
Alain de LIBERA
Directeur de l’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris – France
Human Sciences : Histoire des théologies chrétiennes dans l’Occident Médiéval
ULg
Inaugural Lecture January 25, 1994 : La philosophie du Moyen Age Continuités et rupture
1992-1993
Preben W. WILLEBERG
Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Frederiksberg – Denmark
Biological & medical sciences : Immunology and epidemiology in veterinary medicine
UGent
Hans DAALDER
University of Leiden – The Netherlands
Human sciences: Social sciences
KUL
Inaugural Lecture November 17, 1992 : Politieke Uitdagingen aan de vergelijkende politieke wetenschap
Emmanuel TODD
Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques, Paris – France
Political sciences
ULB
Inaugural Lecture February 3, 1993 : Structures familiales et valeurs ideologiques : La composante primitive des sociétés industrielles
Pierre TRUDEL
Université de Montréal – Canada
Human sciences – Public law
FUNDP
Marcos ROJKIND
Yeshiva University – Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New-York -U.S.A. Biological & Medical sciences : Medicine and pharmacy
VUB
Inaugural Lecture March 19, 1993 : Pathology of cirrhosis
Bernard Jean TESTA
University of Lausanne – Switzerland
Biological and medical sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture March 4, 1993 – La conception des médicaments : comment les pharmacochimistes apprennent a parler aux cellules
Herman PLEIJ
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Human sciences – History of Dutch Literature
UA
Colin MAYER
City University Business school, London – United Kingdom
Human Sciences – Economics : Corporate Control
ULg
Inaugural Lecture March 31, 1993 : Ownership
1991-1992
David E. RUMELHART
Stanford University, California – U.S.A.
Connectionist approaches in cognitive science
Ugent
Marian Ch. HORZINEK
University of Utrecht – The Netherlands
Biological & medical sciences : Veterinary medicine – Immunology – Virology
ULg
Inaugural Lecture October 14, 1992 : Evolution of RNA viruses
Vincenzo BALZANI
University of Bologne – Italy
Chemistry
KUL
Inaugural Lecture March 2, 1992 : Molecular and supramolecular photochemistry
Georges CONTOGEORGIS
University of Athènes – Greece
Political sciences
ULB
Inaugural Lecture February 12, 1992 – Conditions de la démocratie : du pluralisme preprésentatif au pluralisme démocratique
Willem K.B. HOFSTEE
University of Groeningen – The Netherlands
Human sciences – Psychology
VUB
Inaugural Lecture May 22, 1992 – Persoonlijkheidseigenschappen : de caleidoscoop van individuele verschillen
Colette ROLAND
Université de la Sorbonne (Paris I) – France
Computer science
FUNDP
Frans DEBRUYNE
University of Nijmegen – The Netherlands
Biological & medical sciences : Urology
UA
1990-1991
Nick REIJERS
Technische Universiteit Delft – The Netherlands
Flexibele produktie automatisering
UGent
Manfred HILLER
Université de Duisburg – Germany
Computer-aided Kinematics and Dynamics of Multibody Systems
ULg
Inaugural Lecture March 5, 1991 – Modelling and Simulation of Complex Multibody Systems
Pierre LEGENDRE
Université de Paris I – Sorbonne – France
Human sciences – Histoiry of law
KUL
Inaugural Lecture March 1, 1991 – La fonction normative, version occidentale
Peter D. WAGNER
University of San Diego, California – U.S.A.
Biological & medical sciences – Medicine
ULB– KUL
Inaugural Lecture March 28, 1991 : General cardioresiratory response to exercise
Robert David ADAMS
University of Bristol – United Kingdom
Exact sciences – Applied mecanics
VUB
Inaugural Lecture February 20, 1991 : From checking choppers to changing cello’s
1989-1990
Basil MARKESINIS
University of London “Queen Mary College” – United Kingdom
Differences in the legal background
UGent
Willem Albert WAGENAAR
Université de Leiden – The Netherlands
Human sciences : experimental and theoretical psychology
KUL
Inaugural Lecture February 19, 1991 : Waar logica faalt en verhalen overtuigen : een beschouwing over het strafrechterlijk bewijs
Pierre GERBET
Université de Paris – Institut d’études politiques – France
Human sciences – Politics
ULB
Inaugural Lecture February 8, 1990 : La Dynamique de la construction européenne
1988-1989
Dominique COMAR
Institut de Recherche Fondamentale, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique, Saclay – France
Nuclear Medicine
ULg
Inaugural Lecture October 17, 1989 : Tomographie d’Emission de Positons, état actuel et perspective
George MORRISON
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York – U.S.A
Analytical chemistry – Trace and Micro Analysis
UA
1987-1988
Alain PAVE
Université Claude Bernard, Lyon – France
Artificial intelligence in biotechnology and natural resources management
UGent
Gerhard DUELEN
Technische Universität, Berlin – Germany
Exact sciences : Electricity Robottechnology
KUL
Inaugural Lecture October 7, 1987 : Trends de Besturing van Produktiesystemen
Fred T. MACKENZIE
University of Hawaii – U.S.A.
Geology
ULB
Inaugural Lecture April 21, 1988 : Biogeochemical cycles in the evolution of the earth and human impact
Jacques BENVENISTE
Université de Paris-Sud (Paris XI) – France
Biological & medical sciences : experimental pathology – Immunopathology
FUNDP0
Guy SERBAT
Sorbonne, Paris – France
Human Sciences – Linguistique latine
UCL
Inaugural Lecture October 7, 1988 – Linguistique latine et linguistique générale
1986-1987
Helmut RINGSDORF
University of Gutenberg, Mainz – Germany
Macromolecular Chemistry
ULg
Inaugural Lecture March 7, 1988 : Synthesis, structure and properties of thermotropic polymeric liquid crystals
Allan R. ROBINSON – at honorary titel
University of Harvard – U.S.A.
Astrophysics – Geophysics – Oceanography
ULg
Dietrich RUESCHEMEYER
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island – U.S.A.
Human Sciences – Sociology
VUB
Inaugural Lecture 26 October 1987 – States and social change
1985-1986
Sir James BLACK
King’s College Medical School, London – Great-Britain
Managing to find new drugs
Ugent
Carl K. EICHER
Michigan State University – U.S.A.
Biological & Medical Sciences – Economical Sciences – Agriculture
KUL
Inaugural Lecutre February 6, 1986 : Transforming African Agriculture : Lessons from 25 years of Independence – Western Science and african hunger
Enrico CLEMENTI
Director of research department of IBM, San José, California – U.S.A.
ULB
Inaugural Lecture March 4, 1986 : From small to large chemical systems – theory, computer simulations and experimental verifications
Joseph GREENBERG
University of Haïfa – Israel
Economical Sciences – A theory of rational social interaction : a new integrative approach to game theory with selected applications in the fields of economics and political science
FUNDP
1984-1985
Michel GRESSET
University of Paris VII – France
Human Sciences
ULg
Inaugural Lecture January 11, 1985 : D’Aristote aux Sciences de l’Homme
M.R.Byron PIPES
University of Delaware, Newark – U.S.A.
La mécanique des matérieux composites
UCL
Bernard POTTIER
University of Paris IV – France
Human Sciences
VUB
Inaugural Lecture January 21, 1985 – Sémantique, syntaxe, pragmatique dans la communication linguistique
William Wolfgang HOLDHEIM
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York – U.S.A.
Reflecties over het detective-verhaal
UA
1983-1984
Claude LEVY-LEBOYER
University René Descartes, Paris – France
Psychology – La crise des motivations : un thème prioritaire pour la psychologie
UGent
Ian Mc GILLIVRAY
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen – Scotland
Biological and Medical Sciences – Obstetrics and Gynaecology
KUL
Inaugural Lecture March 29, 1984 : The tragedy of twinning
Norma C. GYSBERS
University of Columbia, Missouri – U.S.A.
Psychological sciences
VUB
Inaugural Lecture February 23, 1984 : Career development programs in agencies business and industry
Giorgio BENEDEK
University of Milan – Italy
The role of surface vibrations in physical, chemical, mechanical and thermal properties of solid surfaces and interfaces
FUNDP
1982-1983
Edgar MORIN
Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Paris – France
Human Sciences – Sociology
UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 27, 1984 : La connaissance de la connaissance
Emilius A.A. LUIJTEN
University of Nijmegen – The Netherlands
Human Sciences
VUB
Inaugural Lecture October 29, 1982 : Het nieuwe Brugerlijk Wetboek in Nederland
1981-1982
Benzion FUCHS
University of Tel-Aviv – Israël
The anomeric effect and gauche effect;structural and reactivity aspects
Ugent
Hans Robert JAUSS
University of Konstanz – Germany
Human Sciences
KUL
Inaugural Lecture October, 1982 : Verstehen – Auslegen – Anwenden (Einführung in die literarische Hermeneutik
Eugène F. FAMA
University of Chicago – U.S.A.
Economy
ULB
Inaugural Lecture April 20, 1982 : Interest rates and inflation
1980-1981
James WOODS
Iowa State University – U.S.A.
Mechanical Engineering – Control of indoor environment
Ugent
Inaugural Lecture May 5, 1981 : Overall Energy Effectiveness. Problems, methods, solutions, and expected results
Michel FOUCAULT
Collège de France, Paris
Criminology
UCL
Inaugural Lecture April 2, 1981 : Mal faire, dire vrai, Fonctions de l’aveu
1979-1980
Michel TRAISNEL
University of Lille II – France
Biological & Medical Sciences – The quality of medication and the good practice of fabricaton
Ugent
Gary D. EPPEN
University of Chicago – U.S.A.
Industrial Engineering
KUL
Inaugural Lecture April 25, 1980 : Logistics Management – Mathemathics and Managers
1978-1979
Oto BARTA
Louisiana State University – U.S.A.
Biological & Medical Sciences – Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology
ULg
Inaugural Lecture April 25, 1979 : l’Immunologie clinique vétérinaire : ses perspectives
Serge MOSCOVICI
Van Leer Foundation at Jerusalem – Israel
Human Sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture March 8, 1979 : Collective psychology and evolution of idea
Edward Shils
University of Chicago en Cambridge – U.S.A.
Human Sciences
KUL
Symposium January 12, 1979 : Tradition
Carel F. VAN PARERREN
University of Utrecht – The Netherlands
Human Sciences – Psychology
VUB
Inaugural Lecture January 10, 1979 – Het handelingsmodel in de leerpsychologie
1977-1978
Pierre A. LALIVE
Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales, Geneva – Switzerland
International Law
ULB
Inaugural Lecture March 9, 1978 : Questions actuelles du Droit des contrats internationaux
1976-1977
H.J.J. WELLENS
Universty of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Biological & Medical sciences : Recent advances in understanding and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
ULg
Inaugural Lecture November 8, 1976 : Prognosis and treatment of cardiac arrythmias in acute myocardial infarction
Jean CHAUSSIDON
Director of research INRA, Fontenay Le Fleury – France
UCL
Inaugural Lecture March 11, 1977 : Le sol, milieu poreux structuré, et ses interactions avec l’eau et les solutions
Arthur PILLA
Columbia University, New York – U.S.A.
Bioelectrochemistry
UB
Inaugural Lecture May 24, 1977 : Laplace plane analysis of electrode kinetics : A unified approach to potential controlled impedance studies
John SHEPHERD
Mayo Mecial School – U.S.A.
Biological & Medical Sciences : Hemodynamic
UA
1975-1976
Xavier PERLIA
Institut de Parmarcie de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich
Pharmacology
ULB
Inaugural Lecture March 31, 1976 : Propriétés physico-chimiques activités pharmacologiques
Henri ARZELIES
Faculté de Sciences de Bordeaux – France
The bases of relativity
UGent
Peter C. COMPES
Bergische Univesität-Gesamtschule, Wuppertal – Germany
Exact sciences : Technic of security
KUL
1974-1975
Gianfranco CHIAROTTI
University of Rome – Italy
Electronic States on semiconductor surfaces
ULg
Inaugural Lecture February 14, 1975 : Electronic structure of point defects in crystals
Günther WILKE
Max-Planck-Insitut für Kohlenforschung the Mülheim – Germany
UCL
Inaugural Lecture February 6, 1975 : Matelorganic Chemistry
René THOM
Insitut des Hautes Etudes Scientififques, Bures-sur-Yvette – France
Exact Sciences
VUB
Inaugural Lecture April 22, 1976 : La théorie des catastrophes et ses applications
1973-1974
Joël G. HARDMAN
Vanderbilt University
Biological & Medical Sciences : Cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of cells functions
ULB
Inaugural Lecture October 8, 1974 : Cyclic nucleotides in the regulation of cells functions
Sven MOLLER KRISTENSEN
University of Copenhangue
Sociology
UGent
Edward SCHILLBEECKX
Catholic University at Nijmegen – The Netherlands
Human Sciences : Dogmatic theology
KUL
Symposium October 22, 1974 : Menselijke lijdensgeschiedenis en christelijk heil
1972-1973
Georges DUMEZIL
Collège de France, Paris
History of religions
ULg
Inaugural Lecture October 19 1972 : Civilisation indo-européenne et méthode comparative
Albert RENOLD
University of Geneva – Switzerland
Biological & Medical Sciences – Specialist of diabetes
UCL
Inaugural Lecture December 11, 1972 : Aspects de la Physiopathologie expérimentale et clinique du diabète sucré
Raymond GOLDSCHMIDT
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut – U.S.A.
Economics
KUL
Inaugural Lecture January 7, 1974 : Financial structure and development in international comparative sight
1971-1972
Pierre LAURENT
Université de Grenoble
Applied Sciences
ULB
Inaugural Lecture January 25, 1972 : Approximation et optimisation convexes
Roger SHORT
University of Cambridge
The discovery of sex
UGent
Roman JAKOBSON
Harvard University of Cambridge, Massachusetts – U.S.A.
Human Sciences
KUL
Symposium February 14, 1972 : What does a poet do with words (du Bellay) ? Linguistics, verbal styles, literatrure poetics, stylistics, semiotics problems of interdisciplinary research
1970-1971
Henri MENDRAS
Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris – France
Sociology – Systèmes de valeurs et rationalité économique. Structures agraires et développement économique.
ULg
Inaugural Lecture November 19, 1970 : Sociologie et prévision sociale – Symposium March 29, 1971 : Systèmes de valeurs et rationalité économique : le Sociologue et sa société
Paul RICOEUR
University of Paris – France
Human Sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture November 3, 1970: Actual problems of language philosophy : semantic of action
Cornelis STUTTERHEIM
Université de l’Etat à Leyde – The Netherlands
Human Sciences – Dutch language
VUB
Inaugural Lecture January 20, 1972 : Is de mens dupe van zijn eigen woorden ? Wijsgerige taalkritiek
1969-1970
Johannes van der HOEVEN
Faculty of Law – University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Dutch public law
Ugent
1968-1969
Jacques Louis LIONS
Faculty of Sciences Paris – France
Mathematics – La résolution numérique d’équations aux dérivés partielles
ULg
Henry BARDON
Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines de Poitiers
Human sciences
ULB
Inaugural Lecture February 6, 1969 – Philologie de nouvelle critique
Erwin BODENSTEDT
University of Bonn
Specialist in nuclear physics and neutrons physics
KUL
Inaugural Lecture May 20, 1969 : Symmetry Properties of Nature
1967-1968
David SHUGAR
Academy of Sciences Dept of biophysic – Poland
Les Acides nucléiques, la photochimie, les implications génétiques et la macrostructure
UGent
Inaugural Lecture April 26, 1968 : Mécanisme de la mutagénèse chimique
1966-1967
Roland DRAGO
University of Paris – France
Human Sciences – The legality
ULB
Bernard WIDROW
University of Stanford
UCL
Inaugural Lecture January 24, 1967 : Research in machines that learn
1964-1965
Guy SMITH
Soil Scientist Investigations, Washington – U.S.A
Ugent
Kurt KRAMER
University of Göttingen
ULg
1962-1963
Siegfried A. WOUTHUYSEN
University of Amsterdam – The Netherlands
Theoretical physics
ULB
Inaugural Lecture November 6, 1962 : Les particules dans la physique moderne
1961-1962
Mariano YELA
University of Madrid – Spain
Human Sciences : Experimental psychology
UCL
Inaugural Lecture January 11, 1962 : L’analyse factorielle et la psychologie des facultés humaines
1960-1961
Roland OLIVER
University of London – U.K.
Oriental and African studies
ULB
Inaugural Lecture January 5, 1961 : A la recherche de l’histoire Africaine
Marc PELEGRIN
Ecole Nationale de l’Aéronautique, Paris – France
Servomecanism
UGent
Inaugural Lecture October 26, 1960 : Les servomécanismes
1959-1960
Gerhard HERZBERG
Dept. Physics – National Research Council, Ottawa
Physics
ULg
1957-1958
Adriaan C. SCHUFFELEN
Landbouschool, Wageningen – The Netherlands
Agronomical Chemistry
UCL
Inaugural Lecture January 8, 1957 : Het complex : Grond, Wortel, Grondwater
1956-1957
Silvio ZAVALA
Museo Nacional, Castillo de Chapultepec – Mexico
Human Sciences : Historian
UGent
Inaugural Lecture : Le contact des cultures dans l’histoire du Nouveau Monde, l’exemple du Mexique
1955-1956
Paul AEBISCHER
University of Lausanne – Switzerland
UGent
1954-1955
Théodore von KARMAN
President of the Advisory Group for Aeronautical Research and development O.T.A.N
Modern aeronautical sciences
ULB
Inaugural Lecture November 1954 : L’Aerodynamique avant le vol humain
1953-1954
Alfred KASTLER – Nobel Price of Physics 1966
University of Paris – France
Exact Sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture May 25, 1953 : Etudes optiques aux basses températures
1952-1953
Willem P.J. POMPE
University of Utrecht – The Netherlands
Human Sciences : Law
UGent
Inaugural Lecture October 16, 1952 : Vraagstukken van Strafrecht en Strafprocesrecht
1951-1952
Henri GUITTON
University of Dijon and Paris – France
ULg
John F. FULTON
University of Yale
Biological & Medical Sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture October 4, 1951 : Physiologie des lobes frontaux et du cervelet
1950-1951
Stanford MOORE
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, New York – U.S.A.
Chemistry – The principles of the chromatographic method
ULB
Inaugural Lecture October 24, 1950 : The principles of the chromatographic method
1949-1950
George de HEVESY – Nobel Price of Chemistry 1943
University of Stockholm and University of Copenhague
Organic Chemistry and theorical physics
UGent
1947-1948
Herman MARK
Institute for polymer research, Brooklyn
ULg
1946-1947
Lucien FEBVRE
Collège de France, Paris
ULB
André BERTHELOT
University of Paris – France
Physics
UGent
Inaugural Lecture November 4, 1946 : Propriété des noyaux atomiques envisagées du point de vue de la stabilité et de l’instabilité
1938-1939
Albert SZENT-GYORGY von NAGYRAPOLT – Nobel Price of Medicine 1937
University of Szeged
ULg
1937-1938
George I. FINCH
University of London – U.K.
ULB
1936-1937
Sir Hugh TAYLOR
University of Princeton
Chemical and Physical Sciences
UCL
Inaugural Lecture Februari 18, 1937 : La cinétique des réactions chimiques – L’état électronique des radicaux et leur importance en cinétique chimique
1935-1936
Rudolf H. KRUYT
University of Utrecht – The Netherlands
Human Sciences
UGent
Inaugural Lecture October 16, 1935 : Kennis en begrip
1934-1935
Peter DEBYE – Nobel Price of Chemistry 1936
Cornell University
ULg
1933-1934
Baron Boris NOLDE
University of Petrograd
International Law
ULB