Georges Hostelet

Georges Hostelet (born April 1, 1875 in Chimay , Belgium ; † November 4, 1960 ) was a Belgian chemical engineer, statistician, social scientist and philosopher.

Hostelet studied engineering at the Royal Belgian Military School and received his doctorate in physics and chemistry from the University of Liège in 1905 . In the same year he wrote a book on electrochemistry and began working as an industrial chemist. He also came into contact with Ernest Solvay .

In October 1915 he was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court in the escape trial against Edith Cavell , but returned to Belgium in 1917.

In 1925 he was involved in the development of the social sciences at the University of Cairo as part of a Belgian-French delegation. In 1932 he became a member of the Institut International Statistique de La Haye. In the 1930s he organized conferences on the philosophy of science for the French Philosophical Society. This resulted in books on statistics and the philosophy of science, and due to his teaching work at the Colonial University in Antwerp (until 1947) a book on the colonization of the Congo was created.

He attended several Solvay conferences , including the first in 1911.

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• Website on the history of the Solvay conferences