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Auguste Alfred Lucien Gaston Lameere

12/06/1864 (Ixelles)
1942 (Brussels)

Belgian scientists and doctors and radium: a brief but intense nuclear affair

The important role that Belgians played in the use of radium for medical applications, such as the treatment of cancer, is not well known. This story tells you more about it.

Eva Schalbroeck

14 min.

Person

Carl C. Grosjean

Mathematician and physicist.

05/09/1926 (Kortrijk)
02/10/2006 (Kortrijk)

3 min.

Person

François Léopold Henri Stockmans

Pharmacist and paleobotanist.

1904 (Ixelles)
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.