This list of notable people associated with Université libre de Bruxelles includes faculty, staff, graduates and former students in the undergraduate program and all graduate programs, and others affiliated with the University. Individuals are sorted by category and alphabetized within each category. The "Affiliation" fields in the tables in this list indicate the person's affiliation with the ULB and use the following notation:
Year | Image | Laureate | Relation | Category | Rationale | |
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1913 |
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Henri La Fontaine | PhD (1876) | Peace | "for being the true leader of the popular peace movement in Europe." [6] | |
1919 |
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Jules Bordet | PhD (1892), Professor (1907–1961) | Medicine | "for his discoveries relating to immunity". [7] | |
1974 |
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Albert Claude
Co-recipient with Christian de Duve and George Palade |
Professor (1949–1971) | Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning the structural and functional organization of the cell". [8] | |
1977 |
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Ilya Prigogine | Professor (1950–2003) | Chemistry | "for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics, particularly the theory of dissipative structures" [9] | |
2013 |
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François Englert
Co-recipient with Peter Higgs |
PhD (1958), Professor (1964–2016) | Physics | "for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle" [10] | |
2018 |
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Denis Mukwege
Co-recipient with Nadia Murad |
PhD (2015) | Peace | "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict" [11] |