Famous Belgians - Science

Edward de Smedt, chemist and inventor of modern-day road asphalt
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, mathematician and geographer
Abraham Ortelius, Flemish geographer who produced the first modern atlas
Andreas Vesalius, famous anatomist and physician
Adrien de Gerlache, commander of the first scientific Antarctic expedition
Jules Bordet, bacteriologist who developed vaccine for whooping cough
Jan Baptista van Helmont, physician / chemist who showed that plants feed mostly on water, not soil
Georges Lemaître, astronomer who discovered the Big Bang theory
Lambert Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index
Albert Claude, biochemist who was the first to isolate a cancer cell
Georges Cuisenaire, Belgian teacher famous for his method of teaching mathematics
Ilya Prigogine, chemical physicist famous for his theoretical framework on the origin of life
Simon Stevin, mathematician and engineer
Corneille Heymans, winner of the 1938 Nobel Prize for Physiology
Christian De Duve, winner of the 1974 Nobel Prize for Physiology and discoverer of lysosomes and peixosomes
Charles Delstanche, pioneer in otology
Louis Zimmer, world-famous clockmaker

This list is by no means complete and I am finding more Famous Belgians every week. If you know of any that are not on the list, please send me a brief e-mail message. Thank you.

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