Database | Bestor

Albert Claude

Physician, microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner.

23/08/1898 (Neufchâteau)
23/05/1983 (Ixelles)

4 min.

Person

Anton-Reinhard Falck

Dutch diplomat and politician.

19/05/1777 (Utrecht)
16/05/1843 (Brussels)

4 min.

Person

Carl C. Grosjean

Mathematician and physicist.

05/09/1926 (Kortrijk)
02/10/2006 (Kortrijk)

3 min.

Person

Christian René De Duve

Cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner.

02/10/1917 (Thames Ditton)
04/05/2013 (Antwerp)

2 min.

Person

Clémence Everard (Demoor)

Physician and the first woman to hold a Belgian degree in medicine.

04/12/1865

6 min.

Person

Franz-Peter Cassel

Botanist and rector of the University of Ghent.

03/11/1784
08/06/1821 (Ghent)

3 min.

Person

George Alfred Leon Sarton

A Belgian pioneer in the history of science.

31/08/1884
22/03/1956 (Boston)

4 min.

Person

Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître

Cosmologist and priest, Lemaître was the designer of a model of the expansion of the universe from a primitive atom and is therefore called the "father of the big bang".

17/07/1894 (Charleroi)
20/08/1966 (Leuven)

9 min.

Person

Jan Baptist Gillis

Chemist and historian of science.

08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)

5 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.

1867 (Frameries)
1945 (Oostakker)

2 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.