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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 and philosopher of science.

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.