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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.
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Guy Charles Hirsch
Mathematician and philosopher of science.
20/09/1915 (London)
03/08/1993 (Jette)
4 min.
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Ilya Prigogine
Science philosopher and physicist specialised in thermodynamics. Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, won for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
25/01/1917
28/05/2003 (Brussels)
7 min.
Institution
Isis
Scientific journal, founded in 1912 by Georges Sarton.
Ghent (Belgium)
3 min.