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Carl C. Grosjean
Mathematician and physicist.
05/09/1926 (Kortrijk)
02/10/2006 (Kortrijk)
3 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
Louis Bouckaert
Mathematician and physicist.
02/01/1909 (Ostende)
27/01/1988 (Gistel)
4 min.
Person
Paul Gustave Glansdorff
Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.
17/10/1904 (Saint-Gilles)
23/06/1999 (Uccle)
4 min.
Person
Pierre Félix baron de Béthune
Geologist, geomorphologist and baron.
23/03/1909 (Ixelles)
20/03/1991 (Louvain-la-Neuve)
3 min.
Story
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.
