Bringing together many distinguished scientists and some top officials of the European Community, the meeting "Scientific Highlights in Memory of Leon Van Hove" was organized in honou of Leon Van Hove, an outstanding European scientist who contributed to many areas of mathematical and theoretical physics. The papers in this volume offer a recollection of Leon Van Hove's life since his early days as a scientist. One of the most influential physicists of the post-war period, Leon Van Hove inspired new research and work from statistical mechanics to field theory and multiparticle production. The...