List of Belgian inventors and discoverers
The list of Belgian inventors and discoverers is a list of inventors and discoverers from Belgium in alphabetical order by family name.
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B.
- Leo Hendrik Baekeland : Belgium / USA - Bakelite 1907, Velox
- Édouard van Beneden : Discovery of the centrosome , 1888
- Jules Bordet : (Nobel Prize) - for his discoveries in the field of immunity, whooping cough vaccine (together with Octave Gengou )
- Charles Bourseul : co-inventor of the telephone , 1854
- Christine Van Broeckhoven : Molecular Biologist
C.
- Albert Claude : (Nobel Prize) - for discoveries about the structural and functional organization of the cell
- Erik de Clercq : (European Inventor Award) co-developer of the antiviral drug tenofovir
D.
- Christian de Duve : (Nobel Prize) - for discoveries about the structural and functional organization of the cell
E.
- François Englert : Higgs mechanism (independent of Peter Higgs )
F.
- Émile Fourcault : Fourcault process for the manufacture of flat glass
- Edgard Frankignoul : Frankipfahl
G
- Octave Gengou : Whooping Cough Vaccine (together with Jules Bordet )
- Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery : polar explorer, Belgica expedition
- Zénobe Gramme : Grammescher Ring
H
- Corneille Heymans : (Nobel Prize) - for discovering the role of the sinus and aortic mechanisms in breathing regulation
L.
- Georges Lemaître : Big Bang Theory
- Étienne Lenoir : electric ignition for engines 1860, gas engine 1859, gas-powered motorboat 1866
M.
- Fritz Marguerre (Karl Friedrich Marguerre): Belgium / Germany - high pressure feed 1928, Voith-Marguerre coupling
- Gerhard Mercator : Germany / Belgium / Netherlands - Mercator projection
- Jean-Joseph Merlin ; Roller skates (ice skate with two metal wheels on the runners) before 1760, harpsichord strings, atmospheric clock 1760s
N
- Floris Nollet : "Nollet Generator"
O
- Jean Baptiste Julien d'Omalius d'Halloy , geologist, chalk
P
- Joseph Plateau : Phenakistiskop (wheel of life) 1832 (next to Stampfer)
S.
- Adolphe Sax (Antoine-Joseph Sax): Saxophone 1846
- Ernest Solvay : Solvay process
V
- Andreas Vesalius : anatomist of the Renaissance and is considered the founder of modern anatomy and morphological thinking in medicine
W.
- Egide Walschaerts : Walschaerts control for steam locomotives 1844