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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-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.

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.

Institution

Isis

Scientific journal, founded in 1912 by Georges Sarton.

Ghent (Belgium)

3 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.