Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: Ko nga takoha ki te whanaketanga o te putaiao me te hangarau i puta puta noa i te hitori o te whenua. Ko te rau tau 16 o te Pakanga Hou o te Hauauru o Uropi i uru atu ki te kaitango mahere Gerardus Mercator, te kaiwhakaako Andreas Vesalius, te tohunga otaota a Rembert Dodoens me te tohunga pangarau a Simon Stevin i roto i nga kaiputaiao whai mana. Ko te kaimatai Ernest Solvay me te kaipūkaha Zenobe Gramme (École industrielle de Liège) i tapaina o raatau ingoa ki te mahinga Solvay me te dynamo Gramme, i nga tau 1860. I hangaia te bakelite i te 1907<unk>1909 e Leo Baekeland. I mahi ano a Ernest Solvay hei tangata atawhai nui, a i tapaina tona ingoa ki te Solvay Institute of Sociology, te Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management me te International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry e noho ana inaianei ki te Université libre de Bruxelles. I te tau 1911, i tīmata ia i tētahi raupapa hui, ko ngā Hui Solvay mō te Pūkaha me te Hūnga, he nui te pānga ki te whanaketanga o te ahupūngao me te matū ā-ira. He takoha nui ki te pūtaiao taketake i tukuna ki tetahi Belgian, Monsignor Georges Lemaître (Catholic University of Louvain), e whakawhiwhia ana ki te tono i te ariā Big Bang o te takenga mai o te ao i te 1927.E toru nga Tohu Nobel i roto i te Physiology me te Medicine i whakawhiwhia ki nga Belgians: Jules Bordet (Université libre de Bruxelles) i te 1919, Corneille Heymans (University of Ghent) i te 1938 me Albert Claude (Université libre de Bruxelles) me Christian de Duve (Université catholique de Louvain) i te 1974. I whakawhiwhia a François Englert (Université libre de Bruxelles) ki te Tohu Nobel mo te Pihikete i te tau 2013. I whakawhiwhia a Ilya Prigogine (Université libre de Bruxelles) ki te Tohu Nobel mo te Matū i te tau 1977. E rua nga kaikaikarau Belgian i whakawhiwhia ki te Tohu Fields: Pierre Deligne i te 1978 me Jean Bourgain i te 1994.  Patai: Na wai i whakawhanake te Bakelite?
Ko Leo Baekeland