Database

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)

Jean-Guillaume Garnier

French mathematician.

13/09/1766
20/12/1840 (Ixelles)

Karel Maurice Nuyens

Physicist, mathematician and partisan. One of the creators of the first electron microscope in Belgium.

08/11/1901 (Brussels)
22/01/1970 (Uccle)

Nicolas-Édouard Mailly

Astronomer and historian.

17/06/1810 (Brussels)
08/10/1891 (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)

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!