Jacques Tits was a Belgian-born French mathematician who worked on group theory and incidence geometry. He introduced Tits buildings, the Tits alternative, the Tits group, and the Tits metric.
Pierre René, Viscount Deligne is a Belgian mathematician. He is best known for work on the Weil conjectures, leading to a complete proof in 1973. He is the winner of the 2013 Abel Prize, 2008 Wolf Prize, 1988 Crafoord Prize, and 1978 Fields Medal.
André Lichnerowicz was a noted French differential geometer and mathematical physicist of Polish descent. He is considered the founder of modern Poisson geometry.
Zénon Bacq was a Belgian radiobiologist and inventor. He studied medicine at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and became an MD in 1927. He studied at Harvard University (1929–1930), with a grant from the FNRS. He taught animal physiology, pathology, as well as pharmacology and radiobiology at the University of Liège (ULg).
Roland Mortier was a Belgian scientist at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He was a member of the Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique and the Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques. In 1965, he was awarded the Francqui Prize on Human Sciences. He was born in Ghent.
Mathias François Dewatripont is a Belgian economist and professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Marc, Baron Henneaux is a Belgian theoretical physicist and professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) who was born in Brussels on 5 March 1955.
Auguste Alfred Lucien Gaston Lameere was a Belgian entomologist. He made several collecting expeditions to the Algerian Sahara region.
Auguste Engelbert Pierre Orts, was a Belgian lawyer and liberal politician.
Franz Thomas Bruss is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he had been director of "Mathématiques Générales" and co-director of the probability chair, and where he continues his research as invited professor. His main research activities in mathematics are in the field of probability:
Léon Vanderkindere was a Belgian historian, academic and politician.
Abraham Léo Errera was a Belgian botanist, known for his research in the field of plant physiology. He worked at the Free University of Brussels in 1883 as an associate and in 1890 a full professor of botany. In addition, he was actively involved in Jewish affairs.
The following lists events that happened during 1884 in the Kingdom of Belgium.
Niky Kamran is a Belgian-Canadian mathematician whose research concerns geometric analysis, differential geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a James McGill Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
Georges Gilles Joseph Dossin was a Belgian archaeologist, Assyriologist and art historian.
Isabel Alicia Hubard Escalera is a Mexican mathematician in the Institute of Mathematics of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Jean-Pierre Demailly was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Francis Buekenhout is a Belgian mathematician who introduced Buekenhout geometries and the concept of quadratic sets.
The Francois Deruyts Prize, or Prix Francois Deruyts, is awarded every four years to recognize progress in synthetic or analytic superior geometry. It was established in 1902 by the Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Sciences, and carries a monetary award. Originally recipients had to be Belgian, but currently EU nationals are eligible.
Élisa de Gamond, born in Brussels on 3 April 1804 and died in Ixelles on 3 March 1869, was a Belgian painter known for her neo-classical works in the field of mythology.
