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Person
Jacob-Lodewijk Kesteloot
Physician and literary scholar.
09/10/1778 (Nieuwpoort)
05/07/1852 (Ghent)
5 min.
Person
Jan Baptist Gillis
Chemist and historian of science.
08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)
5 min.
Person
Jean Lecomte
Physiologist and physician.
1921 (Flémalle)
1996 (Liège)
3 min.
Person
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie
Traveller, key figure in nineteenth-century Belgian science and head of the Royal Observatory.
07/10/1820 (Mons)
10/07/1888 (Schaerbeek)
11 min.
Person
Jean-Guillaume Garnier
French mathematician.
13/09/1766
20/12/1840 (Ixelles)
5 min.
Person
Joseph Bidez
Professor of classical philology and historian of science.
09/04/1867 (Frameries)
20/09/1945 (Oostakker)
2 min.
Person
Joseph Mogenet
Priest, classical philologist and historian of science.
26/02/1913 (Melreux)
18/02/1980
1 min.
Person
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet
Microbiologist, immunologist and Nobel laureate.
13/06/1870
06/04/1961 (Ixelles)
6 min.
Person
Julien Fautrez
Embryologist and anatomist.
09/06/1914 (Antwerp)
14/08/1996 (Ghent)
4 min.
Person
Julius MacLeod
Botanist and biologist.
19/02/1857 (Ostende)
03/05/1919 (Ghent)
2 min.
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The Masters of science: Belgian Nobel laureates and the pride of the nation
In 2013, Brussels-based professor and physicist François Englert was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Englert joined the illustrious group of Belgian Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Read more about them in this story!
6 min.
Person
Théophile Ernest De Donder
Physicist and chemist considered a founder of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.
19/08/1872 (Schaerbeek)
11/05/1957 (Brussels)
5 min.
