List of Université libre de Bruxelles people
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This list of notable people associated with Université libre de Bruxelles includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the university. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with the ULB and use the following notation:
- B indicates a bachelor's degree
- Att indicates that the person attended the undergraduate program but may not have graduated
- AM indicates a Master of Arts degree
- MSE indicates a Master of Science in Engineering degree awarded by the School of Engineering and Applied Science
- PhD indicates a Ph.D. degree
- GS indicates that the person was a graduate student but may not have received a degree
- F indicates a faculty member, followed by years denoting the time of service on the faculty
- Rec indicates a Rectors of Université libre de Bruxelles, followed by years denoting the time of service
- Gia Abrassart, Belgo-Congolese journalist and activist[1]
- Vũ Đức Đam (b. 1963), Vietnamese politician, Deputy Prime Minister
- Aleth Félix-Tchicaya (b. 1955), Congolese writer
- Fradique de Menezes (b. 1942), São Toméan politician, President
- Charles Michel (b. 1975), politician, Prime Minister and President of the European Council
Science and technology
- Antonina Grégoire (1914–1952), business engineer, feminist, communist, Partisans Armés resistance member and politician[2]
- Delphine Lannuzel, PhD, sea ice biogeochemist and Antarctic researcher[3]
- André Sterling (1924–2018), civil engineer and professor emeritus
- Stephane de Baets (b. 1969), investment, real estate, and hospitality entrepreneur.[4]
- Marguerite Massart (1900–1979), first Belgian female engineer[5]
- Anne Goldberg, physicist, Research & Innovation Expert at Solvay
- Frédérique Vanholsbeeck, professor of physics[6]
Nobel laureates
| Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 |  |
Henri La Fontaine | PhD (1876) | Peace | "for being the true leader of the popular peace movement in Europe."[7] | |
| 1919 |  |
Jules Bordet | PhD (1892), Professor (1907–1961) | Medicine | "for his discoveries relating to immunity".[8] | |
| 1974 |  |
Albert Claude
Co-recipient with Christian de Duve and George Palade |
Professor (1949–1971) | Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell".[9] | |
| 1977 |  |
Ilya Prigogine | Professor (1950–2003) | Chemistry | "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures"[10] | |
| 2013 |  |
François Englert
Co-recipient with Peter Higgs |
PhD (1958), Professor (1964–2016) | Physics | "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle"[11] | |
| 2018 |  |
Denis Mukwege
Co-recipient with Nadia Murad |
PhD (2015) | Peace | "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict"[12] |