Jean Cleymans (5 August 1944—22 February 2021)[1] was a Belgian physicist and a professor at the University of Cape Town (UCT).
[5][6] Cleymans' research addressed topics pursued by the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider of the CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
Together with professor Zeblon Vilakazi,[7] he was instrumental in establishing the South Africa-CERN programme,[8] the successor to the UCT-CERN Research Centre.
[6] Cleymans, a theoretical physicists, has co-authored 299 articles and conference papers with 8,639 citations (status March 3, 2021).
[10] He was member of the editorial board of the MDPI journal Physics[11] and he served as chairman of the South Africa-CERN Programme.