University of Ghent

The University of Ghent (Dutch: Universiteit Race ), in the past Rijksuniversiteit Race (RUG), is a Université of language Dutch E established with Ghent in Belgium.

Doctor Honoris Causa

Woodrow Wilson (1919)
Pieter Zeeman (1925)
Erwin Schrödinger (1939)
Bob Geldof (1986)
Douwe Breimer (1990)
Dirk Frimout (1992)
Sir David Attenborough (1997)
Frans van Vught (1999)
Karel Van Miert (2000)
Jan Hoet (2001)
Jacques Rogge (2002)
Kofi Annan (2003)
William Peacock (2004)
Desmond Tutu (2005)
Robert Fisk (2006)

Alumni famous

Leo Apostel, philosopher
Leo Baekeland, chemist
Wim Blockmans, historian
Thierry Bogaert, founder of DevGen
Marc Bossuyt, judge, professor
Robert Cailliau, inventor of the World Wide Web
Marc Coucke, cofounder of Omega Pharma
Franz Cumont, historian
Els De Bens, philologist specialist in the media.
Paul Fredericq, historian
Proud Walters, molecular biologist
Dirk Frimout, physicist, astronaut
Joseph Guislain, physiologist and psychiâtre
Paul Jansen, pharmacologist
Jacques-Joseph Haus, lawyer
Philippe Herreweghe, doctor, psychiâtre, leader
Crow Heymans, physiologist (Nobel Prize)
François Laurent, lawyer
Yves Leterme, statesman
Julius Mac Leod, botanist
Paul Mansion, mathematician
Gerald Mortar, artistic director
Peter Piot, doctor, assistant of the General secretary of the United Nations
Henri Pirenne, historian
Joseph Plate, physicist
Adolphe Quetelet, statistician
Godfried-Willem Raes, type-setter
Jacques Rogge, doctor, president of the International Olympic committee
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, statesman
Jozef Schell, molecular biologist
Henry van of Velde, architect
Marc Van Montagu, biotechnician
Desired van Monckhoven, physicist
Jules Van Praet, statesman
Guy Verhofstadt, Prime Minister of Belgium
Etienne Vermeersch, philosopher
August Vermeylen, author, historian and statesman
Ovide Decroly, pedagog

External bond

Official site

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