Database | Bestor

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

Guy Charles Hirsch

Mathematician and philosopher of science.

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

4 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

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

Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet

Mathematician, statistician and meteorologist. One of Belgium's most famous and influential scientists.

22/02/1796 (Ghent)
17/02/1874 (Brussels)

27 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

Paul Mansion

Mathematician, historian of science and professor.

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

4 min.

Person

Paul P. Bockstaele

Belgian mathematician and university teacher.

07/02/1920 (Melle)
03/08/2009 (Oud-Heverlee)

7 min.

Person

Robert Antoine Mertens

Mathematician and physicist.

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

3 min.

Person

Robert Gustave Debever

Mathematician.

25/11/1915 (Wadebridge)
11/05/1998 (Woluwe-Saint-Pierre)

1 min.

Person

Théophile Ernest De Donder

Physicist and chemist considered a founder of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.

19/08/1872 (Schaerbeek)
11/05/1957 (Brussels)

5 min.