Database | Bestor

Person

Lucien Léon Hauman

Belgian botanist and professor.

06/06/1880 (Ixelles)
16/09/1965 (Brussels)

3 min.

Person

Léon Jacques Henri Constant Rosenfeld

Physicist and atomic scientist.

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

4 min.

Person

Léon Maurice Crismer

Chemist and professor at the Royal Military Academy.

23/10/1858 (Stavelot)
25/06/1944 (Stavelot)

3 min.

Person

Marcel Florkin

Biochemist and historian of science.

15/08/1900 (Liège)
03/05/1979 (Liège)

5 min.

Person

Nicolas-Édouard Mailly

Astronomer and historian.

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

5 min.

Story

Oratio De Utilitate Studii Historiae Scientiarum Physicarum (1819)

In 1819, Franz-Peter Cassel, professor of botany, made his rectoral address at the State University of Ghent an ardent plea for the study of the history of science.

Geert Vanpaemel

6 min.

Institution

Osiris

Washington (United States)

2 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

Paul P. Bockstaele

Belgian mathematician and university teacher.

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

7 min.

Person

Paul Van Oye

Hydrobiologist and historian of science.

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

5 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.

Person

Robert Gustave Debever

Mathematician.

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

1 min.

Story

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!

6 min.