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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.
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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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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.
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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.