Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten (7 December 1937,
Vlezenbeek
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– 29 April 1999,
Leuven
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) was a professor at the
Catholic University of Leuven
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and later the
Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven
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, an
IEEE Fellow
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and the founder of the
micro-
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and
nanoelectronics
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research center
IMEC
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.
Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from
Stanford University
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in 1963.
Honors and awards
In 1989 he was awarded the first
Becquerel Prize by the
European Commission
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.
In 1990 Van Overstraeten was elevated to
Baron
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and he received the
IEEE Frederik Philips Award (1999).
References
1937 births
1999 deaths
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Stanford University alumni
KU Leuven faculty
People from Sint-Pieters-Leeuw
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