Database | Bestor

Person

Adolphe Rome

Priest, professor and historian of science.

12/07/1889 (Stavelot)
09/04/1971 (Korbeek-Lo)

3 min.

Person

Albert Claude

Physician, microbiologist and Nobel Prize winner.

23/08/1898 (Neufchâteau)
23/05/1983 (Ixelles)

4 min.

Person

Alphonse-Hubert-François Balat

Court architect to Leopold II and designer of the monumental Royal Greenhouses of Laeken.

15/05/1818 (Gochenée)
16/09/1895 (Ixelles)

1 min.

Person

Anton-Reinhard Falck

Dutch diplomat and politician.

19/05/1777 (Utrecht)
16/05/1843 (Brussels)

4 min.

Person

Armand Marie Vincent Joseph Renier

Geologist, palaeontologist and mining engineer.

26/06/1876 (Verviers)
09/10/1951 (Leuze)

5 min.

Person

Auguste Alfred Lucien Gaston Lameere

Zoologist and entomologist.

12/06/1864 (Ixelles)
1942 (Brussels)

5 min.

Person

Carl C. Grosjean

Mathematician and physicist.

05/09/1926 (Kortrijk)
02/10/2006 (Kortrijk)

3 min.

Person

Charles Louis Joseph Xavier de la Vallée Poussin

Geologist, mineralogist en stratigrapher.

06/04/1827 (Namur)
15/03/1903 (Brussels)

3 min.

Person

Charles-Jean Gustave Nicolas baron de la Vallée Poussin

Mathematician and professor, known for his proof of the prime number theorem (PNT).

14/08/1866 (Leuven)
02/03/1962 (Watermaele-Boitsfort)

5 min.

Person

Christian René De Duve

Cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner.

02/10/1917 (Thames Ditton)
04/05/2013 (Antwerp)

2 min.

Person

Clémence Everard (Demoor)

Physician and the first woman to hold a Belgian degree in medicine.

04/12/1865

6 min.

Person

Franz Valérie Marie Cumont

Franz Cumont was a professor, curator, philologist, archaeologist and epigraphist.

03/01/1868 (Aalst)
14/08/1947 (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre)

10 min.

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.