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Albert Claude

Physician, microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner.

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

Anton-Reinhard Falck

Dutch diplomat and politician.

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

Paul Gustave Glansdorff

Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.

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

Paul P. Bockstaele

Belgian mathematician and university teacher.

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

Pierre Félix baron de Béthune

Geologist, geomorphologist and baron.

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

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!

Théophile Ernest De Donder

Physicist and chemist considered a founder of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.

19/08/1872 (Schaerbeek)
11/05/1957 (Brussels)