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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".

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!

Physicist and chemist considered a founder of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.