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Paul Gustave Glansdorff

Engineer and physicist specialised in thermodynamics.

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

Paul Mansion

Mathematician, historian of science and professor.

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

Paul P. Bockstaele

Belgian mathematician and university teacher.

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

Paul Van Oye

Hydrobiologist and historian of science.

24/08/1886 (Ostende)
11/10/1969 (Ghent)

Pierre Félix baron de Béthune

Geologist, geomorphologist and baron.

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

Robert Antoine Mertens

Mathematician and physicist.

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

Robert Gustave Debever

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

The Colonial High School: an arena for discussions on the colonial sciences, administration, and elite

The Colonial High School became one of the places where discussions about the colonial-scientific themes flared up intensely. Often it was about lesson plans and uniforms, but personal feuds and financial intrigues were not shunned either.

Eva Schalbroeck

The Masters of science: Belgian Nobel laureates and the pride of the nation

In 2013, Brussels-based professor and physicist François Englert was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Englert joined the illustrious group of Belgian Nobel Prize-winning scientists. Read more about them in this story!

Théophile Ernest De Donder

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

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

Émile Lucien Joseph Francqui

Businessman, politician and science patron.

05/06/1863 (Brussels)
16/11/1935