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Isaac Newton: from the apple to the law of gravitation

Astronomy

By Flore Mouchet Isaac Newton (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) was an English mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, one of the most famous scientists, best known for his law of universal gravitation. Isaac Newton [...]

The art of giving birth by Louise Bourgeois Boursier

Inventors

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. […]

Froufrou and compass, the prodigeous Emilie du Châtelet

Émilie du Châtelet is the first learned woman in the history of modern science. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]