Roger Van Overstraeten
Roger Joseph, Baron Van Overstraeten was a professor at the Catholic University of Leuven and later the Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven, an IEEE Fellow and the founder of the micro- and nanoelectronics research center IMEC.
Van Overstraeten earned a PhD from Stanford University in 1963.In 1989 he was awarded the first Becquerel Prize by the European Commission.
In 1990 Van Overstraeten was elevated to Baron and he received the IEEE Frederik Philips Award.
