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Maths & Formal Sciences

George Alfred Leon Sarton

A Belgian pioneer in the history of science.

31/08/1884
22/03/1956 (Boston)

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)

Robert Gustave Debever

1915 (Wadebridge)
1998 (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre)