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Jules Bordet (1870-1961)

Belgian Nobel Prices

Jules Bordet © BELGIUM POST

Albert Claude © BELGIUM POST Stamp published (16/2/1987) on initiative of Prof. Frühling

Corneille Heymans © BELGIUM POST

 

Here below the different Belgian Nobel Prices :

1) Institute of International Law in Gent : an association of jurists and politicians that contributed to peace in the world - Nobel Peace Prize in 1904
2) August Beernaert (1829-1912) : a politician - Nobel Peace Prize in 1909
3) Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949): poet and playwright - Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911
4) Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943) : a politician - Nobel Peace Prize in 1913
5) Jules Bordet (1870-1961) : doctor of medicine, specialist in bacteriology and immunology - Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1919
6) Corneille Heymans (1892-1968) : doctor of medicine, specialist in toxicology and pharmacology - Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1938
7) George Pire (1910-1969) : Dominican priest - Nobel Peace Prize in 1958
8) Albert Claude (1898-1983) : doctor of medicine, father of cellular biology - Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1974
9) Christian De Duve (1917) : doctor of medicine, specialist in biochemistry - Nobel Prize of Physiology and Medicine in 1974
10) Ilya Prigogine (1917) : doctor in chemistry and physics - Nobel Price in Chemistry in 1977

 

The Nobel Prize was introduced in 1901.

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish engineer and chemist (1833-1896), he invented dynamite.
When he died, his huge fortune went to a foundation, whose main goals are to reward each year those who contributed to the most common good in the following areas :
Physics, Chemistry, Physiology and Medicine, Literature and Peace. In 1968, the Nobel Prize in Economics was created.

We would like to thank Professor André Govaerts for the photos of Nobel Prices (of Jules Bordet) that illustrate this page.