{{Infobox person | name = Amand Lucas | birth_date = 18 December 1936 | occupation = Scientist and Professor }} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} '''Amand Lucas''' (born 18 December 1936, Liège) is a Belgian scientist and professor at the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, at the Institute for Studies in Interface Sciences.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ritchie |first=R. H |last2=Lambin |first2=Ph |last3=Lambert |first3=D |last4=Vigneron |first4=J. P |last5=Echenique |first5=P |date=2003-06-01 |title=In honor of Professor Amand A. Lucas on the occasion of his retirement |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0368204803000859 |journal=Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena |series=Proceedings of the WBW22 Workshop, dedicated to Prof. A.A. Lucas on his retirement |volume=129 |issue=2 |pages=83–85 |doi=10.1016/S0368-2048(03)00085-9 |issn=0368-2048|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In 1985, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Exact Sciences for his work on theoretical physics.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=1985 – Rapport Jury Amand Lucas – Fondation Francqui – Stichting |url=https://www.francquifoundation.be/francais/prix-francqui/laureats/rapport-cherchye-de-rock-vermeulen/1985-rapport-jury-amand-lucas/ |access-date=2026-05-22 |website=www.francquifoundation.be}}</ref> He is a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique, Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy of Europe: Lucas Amand |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Lucas_Amand |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=www.ae-info.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=APS Fellows archive |url=https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260422155611/https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship |archive-date=2026-04-22 |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=American Physical Society |language=en}}</ref>
He was born in Liege in 1936, and attended the Ecole Normale pour Instituteurs from 1952-1956. Following this he did his undergraduate studies at the Unversity de Liege from 1956-1960, followed by a PhD with J Pirenne from 1962-1966. He then moved to Battelle Memorial Institute for postdoctoral work in 1967-1968, and after a couple of visiting scientist positions became a professor at Facultés Universitaire Notre-Dame de la Paix in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academy of Europe: CV |url=https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Lucas_Amand/CV |access-date=2026-05-22 |website=www.ae-info.org}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Lucas |title=I had a dream: adventures of an insomniac physicist |url=https://primo.lib.umn.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01UMN_INST:TWINCITIES&tab=Everything&docid=alma9982088532501701&lang=en&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&query=sub,exact,%20Chemists%20,AND&mode=advanced&offset=0 |access-date=2026-05-22 |website= |language=en|first=Amand|date=August 2023|publisher=Royal Academy of Belgium}}</ref>
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