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…BelgianAmerican, belgian, American
Leo Hendrik Baekeland (Ghent, November 14, 1863 - February 23, 1944) was a Belgian-American chemist who invented Velox photographic paper (1893)...

George Washington

male, deceased (1946)
inventor, World War I, BelgianAmerican, central america, belgian, emigrant…American, American Home Products
George Constant Louis Washington (May 1871 - March 29, 1946) was an American inventor and businessman of Anglo-Belgian origin. He is best...
Albert Claude

Albert Claude

male, deceased (1983)
University of Liège alumni, cell fractionation, Centrifuge, Biologist, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Dahlem…belgian, BelgianAmerican
Albert Claude was a Belgian biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974. He studied medicine at the University of Liege...
Henry Ford

Henry Ford

male, deceased (1947)
Ford Motor Company, Model T, automobile, patent, Ford Foundation, Ford family…BelgianAmerican, American
Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 - April 7, 1947) was the founder of the Ford Motor Company and father of modern assembly lines used in mass production....
May Sarton

May Sarton

female, deceased (1995)
flemish, Belgian women writer, American women writer, Breast cancer death, Breast cancer patients, Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing…BelgianAmerican, American
May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995) was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist born in Wondelgem, Belgium. Many of her novels and poems are...
Marguerite Yourcenar

Marguerite Yourcenar

female, deceased (1987)
French American, Académie Française, Essayist, naturalized citizen of the United States, from Maine, novelist…BelgianAmerican
Marguerite Yourcenar was the pseudonym of French novelist Marguerite Cleenewerck de Crayencour (June 8, 1903 - December 17, 1987). She was the...

George Sarton

male, deceased (1956)
Introduction to the History of Science, father, university of ghent, Historian of science, Univeristy of Ghent, George Alfred Leon Sarton…BelgianAmerican, belgian
George Alfred Leon Sarton (1884-1956) was a Belgian-American polymath, historian of science, and father of the writer, May Sarton. He wrote the...
Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

male, 87 years old
Bebop harmonica player, Latin jazz harmonica player, Belgian jazz harmonica player, Mainstream jazz harmonica player, Contemporary jazz harmonica player, Brazilian jazz (genre) harmonica player…Belgian nobility, BelgianAmerican, belgian
Baron Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor "Toots" Thielemans is a Belgian jazz artist well known for his guitar, harmonica playing, and also for his hi...
Robert Triffin

Robert Triffin

male, deceased (1993)
Economist, Triffin's dilemma, federal reserve system, Harvard University, Triffin dilemma, Yale University…belgian, BelgianAmerican
Robert Triffin (October 5, 1911; Flobecq, Belgium - February 23, 1993; Ostend, Belgium) was a Belgian economist best known for his critique of the...
Maurice Tempelsman

Maurice Tempelsman

male, 80 years old
Antwerp, Belgium, from Antwerp, Belgium, Business Person, American, Jewish person, belgian…BelgianAmerican, Jewish American
Maurice Tempelsman (born August 26 1929, Antwerp, Belgium) is a Belgian-American diamond merchant and industrialist. He moved to the United States...