Database | Bestor

Person

Armand Marie Vincent Joseph Renier

Geologist, palaeontologist and mining engineer.

26/06/1876 (Verviers)
09/10/1951 (Leuze)

5 min.

Person

Auguste Alfred Lucien Gaston Lameere

Zoologist and entomologist.

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

5 min.

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

Christian René De Duve

Cell biologist and Nobel Prize winner.

02/10/1917 (Thames Ditton)
04/05/2013 (Antwerp)

2 min.

Person

Franz-Peter Cassel

Botanist and rector of the University of Ghent.

03/11/1784
08/06/1821 (Ghent)

3 min.

Person

François Léopold Henri Stockmans

Pharmacist and paleobotanist.

1904 (Ixelles)
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.

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

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.

Person

Jean Lecomte

Physiologist and physician.

1921 (Flémalle)
1996 (Liège)

3 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.