Severin Amelinckx#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 83 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | |
Severin Amelinckx passed away in February 22, 2007.
Positions Held
- 1963 - 1987 Assistent Director General of the Nuclear Centre and in 1975 Director General
- 1959 President of the department of Solid State Physics of the “Research Centre for Nuclear Energy” in Mol, Belgium
- Professor at the Free University of Brussels and several teaching chairs at universities abroad including Carnegie Mellon Institute of Technology, Stanford University and La Sorbonne
- 1965 Extra-ordinary professor State University Centre of Antwerp (RUCA)
- Lecturer and later extra-ordinary professor at the State University of Ghent
Fields of Scholarship
- Study of dislocations
- Development and application of the technique of electron microscopy
Honours and Awards
- 1981 Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Literature of Belgium
- 1993 Governer-president of the Class of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Literature of Belgium
- 1997 Honorable member of of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Fine Arts and Literature of Belgium
- Member of the Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences, the Royal Dutch Academy for Sciences and the Academia Europea in London
- Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece, holder of the Belgian Franqui Chair and of several other scientific prices in Belgium and abroad
