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    "description": "<p>Throughout its history, Leuven University has been home to many famous scientists. The names of cartographer Gerard Mercator, discoverer of gas lighting Jan Pieter Minckelers, chemist Jean-Baptist Van Mons, zoologist Pierre Joseph Van Beneden, and inventor of the Big Bang theory Georges Lema\u00eetre live on in the local street scene. The laboratories where they worked were housed in university colleges, repeatedly adapted over the centuries to the increasing requirements of scientific research. With the last of these laboratories soon to move out of the inner city to a campus outside the city, this book outlines the urban history of Leuven\u2019s scientists and their laboratories, taking the reader along the still-visible traces of this remarkable heritage.</p><p><strong>Geert Vanpaemel</strong> is professor emeritus of the history of science at KU Leuven.</p>",
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