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Ilya Prigogine

Science philosopher and physicist specialised in thermodynamics. Nobel prize laureate in chemistry, won for his contributions to non-equilibrium thermodynamics.

25/01/1917
28/05/2003 (Brussels)

7 min.

Institution

Isis

Scientific journal, founded in 1912 by Georges Sarton.

Ghent (Belgium)

3 min.

Person

Jacob-Lodewijk Kesteloot

Physician and literary scholar.

09/10/1778 (Nieuwpoort)
05/07/1852 (Ghent)

5 min.

Person

Jan Baptist Gillis

Chemist and historian of science.

08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)

5 min.

Person

Jean Lecomte

Physiologist and physician.

1921 (Flémalle)
1996 (Liège)

3 min.

Person

Jean-Baptiste van Mons

Pharmacist, physician, chemist, physicist and horticulturalist.

10/11/1765 (Brussels)
06/09/1842 (Leuven)

14 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.

09/04/1867 (Frameries)
20/09/1945 (Oostakker)

2 min.

Person

Joseph Mogenet

Priest, classical philologist and historian of science.

26/02/1913 (Melreux)
18/02/1980

1 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.

Person

Julius MacLeod

Botanist and biologist.

19/02/1857 (Ostende)
03/05/1919 (Ghent)

2 min.

Story

The Colonial High School: an arena for discussions on the colonial sciences, administration, and elite

The Colonial High School became one of the places where discussions about the colonial-scientific themes flared up intensely. Often it was about lesson plans and uniforms, but personal feuds and financial intrigues were not shunned either.

Eva Schalbroeck

11 min.

Story

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!

6 min.