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Franz-Peter Cassel

Botanist and rector of the University of Ghent.

03/11/1784
08/06/1821 (Ghent)

François Léopold Henri Stockmans

Pharmacist and paleobotanist.

1904 (Ixelles)
1986 (Uccle)

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)