Philippe Dautzenberg
Naturalist
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Rombaud Dodonee
Botanist. Actual, Flemish name: Rembert Dodoens. Author of the "Cruydeboek" (Herbs-book).
1 memorial
Jean-Jules Linden
Born Luxembourg. Botanist, orchid specialist, explored central and south America. He was the first director of the Zoological Gardens.
1 memorial
Gerard Mercator
Geographer. Born Flanders, son of a poor cobbler. "Mercator" is the Latin translation of his name, Gerard Kremer. He invented a means of projecting the spherical world onto a flat sheet of pape...
War dead, Science, Seriously Famous
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Adolphe Quetelet
Born Ghent. Scientist (mathematics, astronomy, meteorology, anthropology, sociology) and humorist. (Strange, we know, but that is what the "New Dictionary of Belgians" lists). First Secretary of...
2 memorials
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Giacomo Puccini
Born: 22/12/1858, 166 years ago
Person, Music, Seriously Famous, Italy
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