The Most Famous
Physicists from Belgium
This page contains a list of the greatest Belgians Physicists. The pantheon dataset contains 851 Physicists, 7 of which were born in Belgium. This makes Belgium the birth place of the 20th most number of Physicists behind China and Ireland.
Top 7 Physicists
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Belgians Physicists of all time. This list of famous Belgians Physicists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1
Georges Lemaître
1894 - 1966
HPI 75.6472 langsGeorges Lemaître is most famous for his theory of the expanding universe. His theory was that the universe began as a small point of matter...Read moreShow less
Georges Lemaître is most famous for his theory of the expanding universe. His theory was that the universe began as a small point of matter and has been expanding ever since.
- #2
François Englert
b. 1932
HPI 73.0369 langsFrançois Englert is most famous for his work on the Higgs boson particle.
- #3
Joseph Plateau
1801 - 1883
HPI 68.1942 langsJoseph Plateau was a Belgian physicist who is most famous for his invention of the phenakistoscope.
Overlapping Lives
Which Physicists were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 5 most globally memorable Physicists since 1700.
