Database | Bestor

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-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

François Léopold Henri Stockmans

Pharmacist and paleobotanist.

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

3 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

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.

Person

Jan Baptist Gillis

Chemist and historian of science.

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

5 min.

Person

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.

Person

Louis Bouckaert

Mathematician and physicist.

02/01/1909 (Ostende)
27/01/1988 (Gistel)

4 min.

Person

Léon Jacques Henri Constant Rosenfeld

Physicist and atomic scientist.

14/08/1904 (Charleroi)
23/05/1974 (Copenhagen)

4 min.

Person

Nicolas-Édouard Mailly

Astronomer and historian.

17/06/1810 (Brussels)
08/10/1891 (Saint-Josse-ten-Noode)

5 min.

Person

Paul Gustave Glansdorff

Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.

17/10/1904 (Saint-Gilles)
23/06/1999 (Uccle)

4 min.

Person

Paul Mansion

Mathematician, historian of science and professor.

03/06/1844 (Marchin)
16/04/1919 (Ghent)

4 min.

Person

Pierre Félix baron de Béthune

Geologist, geomorphologist and baron.

23/03/1909 (Ixelles)
20/03/1991 (Louvain-la-Neuve)

3 min.

Person

Robert Antoine Mertens

Mathematician and physicist.

28/04/1921 (Antwerp)
07/05/2006 (Antwerp)

3 min.