Astronomy
Isaac Newton: from the apple to the law of gravitation
By Flore Mouchet Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English […]
Inventors
Inventors
The art of giving birth by Louise Bourgeois Boursier
Louise Bourgeois, also known as La Boursier, is a French midwife and the first to write a book on problems related to childbirth. […]
Chemistry
Marie Curie, international radiancy
Marie Sklodowska-Curie, better known as Marie Curie, is the most famous scientist. Physicist and chemist of Polish origin, she is naturalized French. To date, she is the only woman to have received two Nobel prizes for her work on natural radioactivity. […]
Botany
Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who had the guts to impose her ideas
Barbara McClintock is a famous American geneticist. Certainly one of the brightest in the 20th century. […]
Astronomy
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhckin, a star among the stars
Cecilia Payne-Gaposhckin is an Anglo-American astronomer. She is one of the first astronomers to demonstrate that the composition of stars is primarily made of hydrogen and helium. […]
Inventors
Froufrou and compass, the prodigeous Emilie du Châtelet
Émilie du Châtelet is the first learned woman in the history of modern science. […]
Fun facts
When confinement is used to develop the greatest theories of physics.
Isaac Newton, the famous English physicist who developed the theory of universal gravitation, was also confined 3 centuries earlier. London was then hit by the Great Plague. When he was a student, the University of Cambridge sent the students home to comply with the rules of confinement, as today we have to do with the Coronavirus. This genius knew how to use his time to develop his theories in optics and solve mathematical problems. […]
Belgian inventors
The praline of Jean Neuhaus, a Belgian delight recognized all over the world.
Belgium is the country of chocolate. The whole world knows it! But what people don’t know is that before it was a praline, chocolate was used to make drugs taste better. So it wasn’t in a chocolate factory that it all started, but in a pharmacy in Brussels, where we sold drugs to treat people. […]
Belgian inventors
Robert Cailliau, the forgotten co-inventor of www!
Two of them have developed the web: an Englishman named Tim Berners-Lee, and a brilliant Belgian scientist who has been forgotten, Robert Cailliau. How could we forget the name of a man behind the technology we use every day? Even the Britannica encyclopedia attributes the invention of the web to the English scientist, neglecting his Belgian colleague. […]
Belgian inventors
Andreas Vesalius, the father of anatomy
Anatomy is the science that studies the shape, structure, and positioning of the organs in our body. And the father of anatomy is none other than the Belgian André Vésale. […]