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expo Belgian Histories of Science
The exhibition Belgian Histories of Science will run from 1 June to 31 August at the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR). The expo is free to attend and focuses on three specific themes: the Congo and Science, Women in Science & Science and the Great War.

Expo ‘Over vliegen, vallen… en opgraven!’ (in Dutch)
In 2002, the Belgian Aviation History Association Archaeology Team (BAHAAT) was formed to work with the government to take a more scientific approach to excavating aircraft wrecks. Together with them, Archeocentrum Velzeke they created the exhibition "About flying, falling... and digging up!". The expo can be visited from 20 May until 17 September.


Recent Publications

Making Belgian Big Science: A History of the MYRRHA Research Reactor (1994—2010)
Hein Brookhuis


Taking the University to the People. The Role of Lantern Lectures in Extramural Adult Education in Early Twentieth-Century Brussels and Antwerp
Margo Buelens-Terryn


Il n’est sagesse sans folie:La vie singulière de François Englert, Prix Nobel. Chronique en dix épisodes, un prologue et un épilogue
Danielle Losman


Small and great stories of the Geological Survey of Belgium
Kris Welkenhuysen & Vanessa M.A. Heyvaert (eds.)


Théodore Mann. Savoir et pouvoir: Un théoricien du climat à l'Académie de Bruxelles au XVIIIe siècle
Muriel Collart


Transforming Big Science in Belgium: Management Consultants and the Reorganization of the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK CEN), 1980–1990
Hein Brookhuis


Better Appreciating the Scale of It: Lemaître and de Sitter at the BAAS Centenary
Siska De Baerdemaeker and Mike D. Schneider


Adolphe Quetelet: Passeur d'idées
Jean-Jacques Droesbeke


Medical histories of Belgium: New narratives on health, care and citizenship in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Joris Vandendriessche & Benoît Majerus (Eds.)


Uranium exposed at Expo 58: the colonial agenda behind the peaceful atom
Dennis Pohl


Tintin in Mesopotamia: The Story of Belgian Assyriology (1890–2017)
Katrien De Graef
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Royal Meteorological Institute


110 years ago the Royal Meteorological Institute became an independent institution, detached from the royal observatory. The newly translated entry on the RMI can be found via the link below.


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History of Science in Belgium


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