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Person

Franz-Peter Cassel

Botanist and rector of the University of Ghent.

03/11/1784 (Cologne)
08/06/1821 (Ghent)

3 min.

Person

François Léopold Henri Stockmans

Pharmacist and paleobotanist.

13/09/1904 (Ixelles)
07/04/1986 (Uccle)

3 min.

Person

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

Guy Charles Hirsch

Mathematician and philosopher of science.

20/09/1915 (London)
03/08/1993 (Jette)

4 min.

Story

History of science in Belgium

In this story, you will learn more about the rich tradition of Belgian scientific history, from the Renaissance, through key figures such as Adolphe Quetelet and George Sarton, to the present day.

7 min.

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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.

Institution

J. Gillisprijs

Prize intended to reward important original work in the field of the history of scientific thought.

Brussels (Belgium)

1 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.