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.

Story

History of science in Belgium

In this story, you will learn more about the rich tradition of Belgian scientific history, from the Renaissance, through key figures such as Adolphe Quetelet and George Sarton, to the present day.

7 min.

Institution

Isis

Scientific journal, founded in 1912 by Georges Sarton.

Ghent (Belgium)

3 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.