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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.
Person
Jan Baptist Gillis
Chemist and historian of science.
08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)
5 min.
Person
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie
Traveller, key figure in nineteenth-century Belgian science and head of the Royal Observatory.
07/10/1820 (Mons)
10/07/1888 (Schaerbeek)
11 min.
Person
Jean-Guillaume Garnier
French mathematician.
13/09/1766
20/12/1840 (Ixelles)
5 min.
Person
Joseph Bidez
Professor of classical philology and historian of science.
1867 (Frameries)
1945 (Oostakker)
2 min.
Person
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet
Microbiologist, immunologist and Nobel laureate.
13/06/1870
06/04/1961 (Ixelles)
6 min.
Person
Julien Fautrez
Embryologist and anatomist.
09/06/1914 (Antwerp)
14/08/1996 (Ghent)
4 min.
Story
Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)
In 1819, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany, made his rectoral address at the State University of Ghent an ardent plea for the study of the history of science.
Geert Vanpaemel
6 min.
Institution
Osiris
Washington (United States)
2 min.
