Education
He obtained a Master of Surgery degree in Chemistry and Physics in 1944 at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.
He obtained a Master of Surgery degree in Chemistry and Physics in 1944 at the Universite Catholique de Louvain.
He started his career as a "soil physicist" in a research institute located in the Belgian Congo. While working in Congo he calculated and measured the motion of the water levels in soils of Central Africa and was able to predict lieutenant In 1967, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences for his work on surface chemistry.
In 1986, he went to the United States to work at the Laboratory for Surface Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.