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Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
Théophile Ernest De Donder
Ilya Prigogine
George Alfred Leon Sarton
Adolphe Rome
Franz Valérie Marie Cumont
Joseph Bidez
Joseph Mogenet
Paul Gustave Glansdorff
Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet
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Jacob-Lodewijk Kesteloot
Christian René De Duve
Clémence Everard (Demoor)
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Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître
Léon Jacques Henri Constant Rosenfeld
Charles-Jean Gustave Nicolas baron de la Vallée Poussin
Jean-Charles Houzeau de Lehaie
Albert Claude
Lucien Léon Hauman
Nicolas-Édouard Mailly
Charles Louis Joseph Xavier de la Vallée Poussin
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The Masters of science: Belgian Nobel laureates and the pride of the nation
History of science in Belgium
The Colonial High School: an arena for discussions on the colonial sciences, administration, and elite
Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)
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Denis Diagre-Vanderpelen
Emma Wouters
Eva Schalbroeck
Geert Vanpaemel
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Jean-Michel Bruffaerts
Joris Mercelis
Lyvia Diser
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Virgile Royen
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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.
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Guy Charles Hirsch
Mathematician and philosopher of science.
20/09/1915 (London)
03/08/1993 (Jette)
4 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.
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Jacob-Lodewijk Kesteloot
Physician and literary scholar.
09/10/1778 (Nieuwpoort)
05/07/1852 (Ghent)
5 min.
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Jan Baptist Gillis
Chemist and historian of science.
08/08/1893 (Arlon)
25/08/1978 (Ostende)
5 min.
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Jean Lecomte
Physiologist and physician.
1921 (Flémalle)
1996 (Liège)
3 min.
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Jean-Baptiste van Mons
Pharmacist, physician, chemist, physicist and horticulturalist.
10/11/1765 (Brussels)
06/09/1842 (Leuven)
14 min.
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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.
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Jean-Guillaume Garnier
French mathematician.
13/09/1766
20/12/1840 (Ixelles)
5 min.
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Joseph Bidez
Professor of classical philology and historian of science.
09/04/1867 (Frameries)
20/09/1945 (Oostakker)
2 min.
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Joseph Mogenet
Priest, classical philologist and historian of science.
26/02/1913 (Melreux)
18/02/1980
1 min.
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Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet
Microbiologist, immunologist and Nobel laureate.
13/06/1870
06/04/1961 (Ixelles)
6 min.
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Julien Fautrez
Embryologist and anatomist.
09/06/1914 (Antwerp)
14/08/1996 (Ghent)
4 min.
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Julius MacLeod
Botanist and biologist.
19/02/1857 (Ostende)
03/05/1919 (Ghent)
2 min.
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Karel Maurice Nuyens
Physicist, mathematician and partisan. One of the creators of the first electron microscope in Belgium.
08/11/1901 (Brussels)
22/01/1970 (Uccle)
3 min.
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