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Botanist and rector of the University of Ghent.

A Belgian pioneer in the history of science.

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".

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

Mathematician and physicist.

Chemist and professor at the Royal Military Academy.