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7 unusual facts about University of Liège


Ansley J. Coale

Coale was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and was a recipient of several honorary degrees from universities including Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Louvain and the University of Liège.

Bahiyyih Nakhjavani

In 2007, Bahiyyih Nakhjavani received the honorary doctorate Doctorats Honoris Causa from the University of Liège.

Michel Hansenne

At the age of 23, Hansenne obtained a Doctor of Law, subsequently gaining a degree in Economics and Finance from the University of Liège.

Nancy Huston

In 2007, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Liège.

Rashidi Adewolu Ladoja

He studied at the University of Liège, Belgium (1966–1972) where he earned a degree in Chemical Engineering.

Ronald L. Phillips

In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

SAMCEF

SAMCEF development started in 1965 at the University of Liège and is still developed and sold by SAMTECH, a Belgian company the HQ of which is located in Liège, Belgium.


Charles François Antoine Morren

He became Professor extraordinarius of botany at the University of Liège from 1835 to 1837, and full professor from 1837 to 1854.

Henryk Arctowski

In 1888 he started studying mathematics, physics and astronomy at the University of Liège, and chemistry and geology at the Sorbonne.

Jacques-Joseph Haus

Around 1817, King William I of the Netherlands enacted the creation of three universities in the southern provinces of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands: in Ghent, in Liège and in Louvain (former Catholic University).

Jeremy Weate

Jeremy Weate (born in 1969 in Wheaton Aston) studied philosophy at the University of Hull, the University of Liège and the University of Warwick, graduating with a PhD in philosophy from Warwick in 1998.

Marcel Detienne

Detienne received his Doctorat en sciences religieuses at the École des Hautes Études in 1960, and his Doctorat en philosophie et lettres from the University of Liège in 1965.

Michel A. J. Georges

Michel A. J. Georges was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2007 along with Ronald L. Phillips of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Montefiore Institute

The Montefiore Institute is the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of Liège, Belgium.

Open access mandate

Among the universities that have adopted open-access mandates for faculty are Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University College London, Queensland University of Technology, University of Minho, University of Liege and ETH Zürich.

Peter Hammer

In 1986 he was given his first honorary doctorate, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; subsequently, he was given two more, by the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1998 and the University of Liège in 1999.

Philip Dawson

Following education at Ghent and Liège Universities, Dawson became a member of the Institutes of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers.

Thomas Bedingfeld

Thomas Bedingfeld (born 1760 died 1789), poet, second son of Edward Bedingfeld, Esquire, of York, and Mary, daughter of Sir John Swinburne, of Capheaton, Northumberland, was born at York on 18 February 1760, and educated at the University of Liége.


see also

Charles Morren

Charles François Antoine Morren (1807-1858) (C.Morren), Belgian botanist, horticulturist and professor at the University of Liège

Luboš Perek

Medals: University of Liège 1969, ADION 1972, T. Hagecius de Hajek 1980, Nagy Ernö 1981, Zagreb Univ. 1982, City of Paris 1982, Collège de France 1986, Prix Jules Janssen of the Societé Astronomique de France 1992.