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Princess Delphine of Belgium (born 1968), painter; Ann Demeulemeester (born 1959), fashion designer; Gerda Dendooven (born 1962), illustrator; Jennifer Des (born 1975), photographer; Honorine Deschrijver (1887–1977), fashion designer; Michele Desubleo (1602–1676), Flemish Baroque painter; Marthe Donas (1885–1967), abstract and cubist painter
Some names such as Marie Curie and Ada Lovelace are widely known, many other women have been active inventors and innovators in a wide range of interests and applications, contributing important developments to the world in which we live. [2] [3] The following is a list of notable women innovators and inventors displayed by country.
The maternal mortality rate in Belgium is 8.00 deaths/100,000 live births (as of 2010). [16] Like most Western countries, Belgium has to deal with low fertility levels and a sub-replacement fertility rate: the total fertility rate (TFR) is 1.7 children born/woman (est. of 2015), [17] which is below the replacement rate of 2.1.
Tintin and Snowy (), on the roof of the former headquarters of Le Lombard near Brussels-South railway station. Belgium has numerous well-known cartoonists, such as Hergé (The Adventures of Tintin), Peyo (), Franquin (Spirou et Fantasio, Marsupilami, Gaston), Willy Vandersteen (Spike and Suzy), Morris (), Edgar P. Jacobs (Blake and Mortimer), Jef Nys and Marc Sleen (). [9]
Top quark Melissa Franklin's team at Fermilab found some of the first evidence for the existence of the top quark. [27] Nuclear shell Maria Goeppert Mayer, a German immigrant to the US who studied at Johns Hopkins during the Great Depression, persisted in her studies even when no university would employ her and became a chemical physicist.
Comic art (known as bande dessinée or the 9th Art) first became popular in Belgium in the 1920s, but achieved huge popularity internationally after the Second World War. It is considered an essential part of Belgian visual culture, as well as one of the country's main artistic influences internationally. [ 3 ]
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Delphine Boël (born 1968), Belgium; Simone Boisecq (1922–2012), Algeria and France; Thyra Boldsen (1884–1968), Denmark; Lee Bontecou (1931–2022), United States; Chakaia Booker (born 1953), United States; Isabelle de Borchgrave (born 1946), Belgium; Christine Borland (born 1965), United Kingdom; Daisy Theresa Borne (1906–1998), United ...