Jean G. van Bladel (July 24, 1922 – January 24, 2018) was a Belgian electrical engineer, physicist and academician, who was a Professor Emeritus at Ghent University.
[1] He obtained his bachelor's degrees in electromechanical and radio engineering from Université libre de Bruxelles in 1947 and 1948, respectively.
[2] In 1948, van Bladel moved to the United States to pursue his graduate studies under a scholarship by Belgian American Educational Foundation.
[1][5] He has also adopted special relativity in his research to solve engineering problems, such as those pertaining to interactions in rotational and translational media, and scattering from moving objects.
[2] In 1995, he received IEEE Heinrich Hertz Medal for "major contributions in fundamental electromagnetic theory and its application to electrical engineering.