EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Ghent, Belgium

Founding Date:
1817

Enrollment:
26,000

Official Website:
http://www.ugent.be/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leo Baekeland	Scientist	14-Nov-1863	23-Feb-1944	Father of plastics
Paul Bulcke	Business	1954		CEO of Nestle
Ulf von Euler	Scientist	7-Feb-1905	9-Mar-1983	Neurotransmitters, norepinephrine and prostaglandins
Corneille Heymans	Scientist	28-Mar-1892	18-Jul-1968	Aortic and carotid chemoreceptors
Yves Leterme	Head of State	6-Oct-1960		Belgian Foreign Minister
Maurice Maeterlinck	Playwright	29-Aug-1862	6-May-1949	Pell�as et M�lisande
Marcel Minnaert	Astronomer	12-Feb-1893	26-Oct-1970	Solar spectrophotometry
Jacques Rogge	Sports Figure	2-May-1942		President of the Int'l Olympic Committee
George Sarton	Historian	31-Aug-1884	22-Mar-1956	Introduction to the History of Science
Leo Tindemans	Head of State	16-Apr-1922	26-Dec-2014	Prime Minister of Belgium, 1974-78
Karel Van Miert	Politician	17-Jan-1942	22-Jun-2009	EU Commissioner for Competition, 1993-99
Guy Verhofstadt	Head of State	11-Apr-1953		Prime Minister of Belgium, 1999-2008

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Leo Baekeland	Scientist	14-Nov-1863	23-Feb-1944	Father of plastics
George de Hevesy	Chemist	1-Aug-1885	5-Jul-1966	Radioisotope researcher
Corneille Heymans	Scientist	28-Mar-1892	18-Jul-1968	Aortic and carotid chemoreceptors
Friedrich August Kekulé	Chemist	7-Sep-1829	13-Jul-1896	Theory of chemical structure
Erwin Schrödinger	Physicist	12-Aug-1887	4-Jan-1961	Schr�dinger's wave equation
Henri Van De Velde	Architect	3-Apr-1863	15-Oct-1957	Art Nouveau architect

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