Walter Fiers

Walter Fiers

male, 78 years old
Ghent University alumni, enzyme, Enzymologist, california institute of technology, Phi-X174 phage, Francqui Prize…universityofghent
Walter Fiers (b.Ieper ,Belgium, 1931) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He obtained a degree of Engineer for Chemistry and Agricultural Industries...
Boudewijn Bouckaert

Boudewijn Bouckaert

male (United States)
Member of List Dedecker, Former member of Flemish Liberals and Democrats, cerebral hemorrhage, Former member of N-VA, think tank, ghent…University Hospital, ghent university, universityofghent, University of Paris, Doctor of Philosophy
Boudewijn Bouckaert is a Belgian liberal thinker and politician, adhering to more radical-liberal views than the vast majority of Flemish liberals....
Marc van Montagu

Marc van Montagu

male, 76 years old
Ghent University alumni, maize, Molecular biologist, ghent university, ghent, molecular biology…universityofghent, United States National Academy of Sciences, Flemish Interuniversity Institute of Biotechnology, European Federation of Biotechnology
Marc Van Montagu (b.Ghent, 10 November 1933) is a Belgian molecular biologist. He was full Professor and director of the Laboratory of Genetics at...
Peter Piot

Peter Piot

male, 60 years old
University of Washington, AIDS activist, Vlerick Award, kinshasa, ebola virus, AIDS…University of Antwerp alumni, Ghent University alumni, Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine, University of Antwerp, Doctor of Medicine
Dr. Peter Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded...
Leo Baekeland

Leo Baekeland

male, deceased (1944)
from Florida, Perkin Medal, from Dutchess County, New York, Ghent University alumni, naturalized citizen of the United States, Belgian-American…ghent, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Age of Plastics, universityofghent, From Ghent
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893)...
Franz Cumont

Franz Cumont

male, deceased (1947)
historian, Baron Edouard Descamps, Ghent University alumni, Edouard Descamps, roman empire, flemish…universityofghent
Franz-Valéry-Marie Cumont was a Belgian archaeologist and historian, a philologist and student of epigraphy, who brought these often isolated s...
Philippe Herreweghe

Philippe Herreweghe

male, 62 years old
Ghent University alumni, Early music performer, universityofghent, Marcel Gazelle, Collegium Vocale, La Chapelle Royale
Philippe Herreweghe (Born May 2, 1947) is a Belgian conductor. Herreweghe was born in Ghent. In his hometown he combined studies at the University...

George Sarton

male, deceased (1956)
Introduction to the History of Science, father, universityofghent, Historian of science, Univeristy of Ghent, George Alfred Leon Sarton…The Study of the History of Science, Harvard University
George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956) was a Belgian-American polymath, historian of science, and father of the writer, May Sarton. He wrote the...
Jozef Schell

Jozef Schell

male, deceased (2003)
Ghent University alumni, biotech, flemish, belgian, universityofghent, Molecular biologist
Jozef Schell was a Belgian molecular biologist. Jozef (Jeff) Schell studied Zoology and microbiology at the University of Ghent, Belgium. From 1967...
Paul Janssen

Paul Janssen

male, deceased (2003)
Roman Catholic, Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, Leuven alumni before 1968, De Grootste Belg, The Greatest Belgian, Ghent University alumni…Pontificial Academy of Sciences, universityofghent, Catholic University of Leuven, University of Cologne, Cologne University
Paul Adriaan Jan Janssen (Turnhout, Belgium, 12 September 1926 - Rome, Italy, 11 November, 2003) was the founder of Janssen Pharmaceutica, a...