# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leon-van-hove
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:35:01.526Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leon-van-hove"
name: "Léon van Hove"
slug: "leon-van-hove"
description: "Léon Charles Prudent Van Hove was a Belgian physicist and a Director General of CERN. He developed a scientific career spanning mathematics, solid state physics, elementary particle and nuclear physics to cosmology."
tagline: "Belgian physicist, Director General of CERN (1924–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_L%C3%A9on_Van_Hove.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "scientist"
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birthDate: "1924-02-10"
deathDate: "1990-09-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             8.421052631578947
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "لئون وان هوو"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump