Eugène Lafont
Belgian Jesuit missionary and scientist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Eugène Lafont, S.J. , was a Belgian Jesuit priest, who became a missionary in India, where he became a noted scientist and the founder of the first Scientific Society in India. Formation and early years He was born in Mons, where his father, Pierre Lafont, a military officer, was stationed. After secondary studies in the Jesuit Collège de Sainte-Barbe in his town, in 1854 Lafont was received into the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, located in the former Norbertine Abbey of Tronchiennes in Ghent. He then went through the usual Jesuit formation, spending his period of Regency teaching in Jesuit schools in Ghent and Liège , followed by his studying to obtain degrees in both philosophy in Tournai and the natural sciences in Namur . In Namur he showed a particular aptitude for physical experimentation.
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