Riesige begehbare Metallkugeln verbinden sich zum Atomium. Foto: Unsplash/Klaudio Metolli.
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Atomium, Brussels

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Science in Belgium

Belgium is the birthplace of Smurfs, French fries and the saxophone. It's easy to forget that we also have a Belgian to thank for a central theory in physics: the theory of the big bang, according to which our universe emerged from a single explosion. It was invented by the Belgian physicist and mathematician Georges Henri Lemaître at the end of the 1920s. Researchers now have a pretty good idea of how much time has passed since the Big Bang: around 13.7 billion years.

The Facts

Population 11,743,772 [1]
Area 30,280 km² [2]
Gross domestic product per capita in US-Dollar 53,659.0 [3]
Public expenditure on education (share of GDP) 6.7 % [4]
Share of female researchers 34.8 %
Universities 81
Universities per 1 million inhabitants 7.10
Students 512,097
Expenditure on Research and Development (share of GDP) 2.8 (share of GDP) [5]

Quellen:

  1. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/belgium-population/

  2. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  3. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  4. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

  5. https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Laender-Regionen/Internationales/Laenderprofile/belgien.pdf?__blob=publicationFile

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Riesige begehbare Metallkugeln verbinden sich zum Atomium. Foto: Unsplash/Klaudio Metolli.
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Brussels' landmark is an hommage to a time when the peaceful use of nuclear energy was deemed the driver of industrial progress. Today it still gives a great view of the Belgian capital.
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