Old "Institut de Physiologie"

The ancient "Institut de Physiologie" of the "Université Libre de Bruxelles" in the Leopold Parc of Brussels was completed in 1895¹ under the sponsorship of the industralist Ernest Solvay and the physician Paul Héger who was its first director². On the rich facades of the magnificent building (now - august 2009 - under restoration) the names of some famous physiologists and scientists of the 19th Century are remembered: JEAN STAS, JOULE, PLATEAU, FARADAY, JEAN MULLER, CARL LUDWIG, MATTEUCCI and R. MAYER.

Many of the famous Solvay Conferences (Conseils Solvay) for Physics and Chemistry took place in this building and in front of it, on the entrance staircase, was taken the famous picture of the "Seventeen Noble Prizes", on the occasion of the 1927 Solvay Conference for Physics on "Electrons et photons": among them, Marie Curie.

• Photos by Luca Borghiti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l# | (August 2009)

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Footnotes

1. On the main facade there is the inscription: "ANNO 1895".

2. See F.-A. Sondervorst, Histoire de la médecine belge, Elsevier Librico, Zaventem 1981, p.186.