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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

Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet

Mathematician, statistician and meteorologist. One of Belgium's most famous and influential scientists.

22/02/1796 (Ghent)
17/02/1874 (Brussels)

27 min.

Person

Louis Bouckaert

Mathematician and physicist.

02/01/1909 (Ostende)
27/01/1988 (Gistel)

4 min.

Person

Léon Maurice Crismer

Chemist and professor at the Royal Military Academy.

1858 (Stavelot)
1944 (Stavelot)

3 min.

Person

Marcel Florkin

Biochemist and historian of science.

15/08/1900 (Liège)
03/05/1979 (Liège)

5 min.

Story

Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)

In 1819, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany, made his rectoral address at the State University of Ghent an ardent plea for the study of the history of science.

Geert Vanpaemel

6 min.

Institution

Osiris

Washington (United States)

2 min.

Person

Paul Gustave Glansdorff

Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.

17/10/1904 (Saint-Gilles)
23/06/1999 (Uccle)

4 min.

Person

Paul P. Bockstaele

Belgian mathematician and university teacher.

07/02/1920 (Melle)
03/08/2009 (Oud-Heverlee)

7 min.

Person

Pierre Félix baron de Béthune

Geologist, geomorphologist and baron.

23/03/1909 (Ixelles)
20/03/1991 (Louvain-la-Neuve)

3 min.

Person

Robert Gustave Debever

Mathematician.

1915 (Wadebridge)
1998 (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre)

1 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.

Institution

Université Lovanium

Belgian Congo

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