page_title: Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron
section_title: Yves Jongen and Ion Beam Applications
hierarchical_section_title: Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron / History / Construction of the city of Louvain-la-Neuve / Yves Jongen and Ion Beam Applications
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Belgique - Louvain-la-Neuve - siège d'IBA (chemin du Cyclotron 3 - Architecture postmoderne - DSW Architects 1991)
context_page_description: The Louvain-la-Neuve Cyclotron is a brutalist architectural complex of the University of Louvain built from 1970 to 1972 in Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium, notably holding UCLouvain's CYCLONE particle accelerators. It is the first building completed by the university when it moved following the Leuven crisis and was the largest cyclotron in Europe at the time of its construction. The Louvain Cyclotron can also refer to Belgium's first cyclotron built in Louvain in 1947, which was replaced by the Louvain-la-Neuve center.
  In addition to two particle accelerators of the Cyclotron Research Center, the complex holds the UCLouvain Schools of Mathematics and Physics and corresponding research institutes, the Centre for Applied Molecular Technologies, the UCLouvain radiation protection service, a business incubator and a shared workspace.
context_section_description: The first director of the Cyclotron Research Centre was Yves Jongen, from Nivelles, who studied electronic engineering at the Catholic University of Louvain in the 1960s, extending his studies with a specialization in nuclear physics. In August 1970, Jongen moved to a house located near the future centre of the new city of Louvain-la-Neuve, which was still entirely under construction, which earned him the status of the first inhabitant of Louvain-la-Neuve. As the director of the Cyclotron Research Centre, Yves Jongen had the idea of reducing the size and cost of the particle accelerator, which led him to develop, in the mid-1970s, a cyclotron specially adapted for clinical use leading to the creation of Ion Beam Applications (IBA) in 1986, which settled in front of the Cyclotron's Eastern Tower. IBA became a university spin-off of UCLouvain.
caption: IBA headquarters, in front of the Cyclotron's East Tower.
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