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Léon van Hove

Belgian physicist, director general of cern.

Born February 10th, 1924 in Brussels metropolitan area.

Died September 2nd, 1990 at 66 years old in Geneva.

Occupations
nuclear physicist, physicist, university teacher
Wikipedia

Death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent, it clears out the old to make way for the new. Steve Jobs