• Anatole Abragam - Chair of Nuclear Magnetism (1960-1985)
• Maurice Agulhon Chair of Contemporary French History (1986-1997)
• Étienne-Émile Baulieu Chair of the Bases and Principles of Human Reproduction (1993-1998)
• Georges Blin Chair of Modern French Literature (1965-1988)
• Yves Bonnefoy Chair of Comparative Studies of the Poetic Function (1981-1993)
• Pierre Boulez Chair of Invention, Technique and Language in Music (1976-1995)
• Pierre Chambon Chair of Molecular Genetics (1993-2002)
• Jean-Pierre Changeux Chair of Cellular Communication (1976-2006)
• Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Chair of Atomic and Molecular Physics (1973 - 2004)
• Yves Coppens Chair of Palaeontology and Prehistory (1983 - 2005)
• François-Xavier Coquin Chair of Modern and Contemporary Russian History (1993-2001)
• Gilbert Dagron Chair of Byzantine History and Civilization (1975-2001)
• Jean Delumeau Chair of the History of Religious Mentalities (1975-1994)
• Michael Edwards Chair of Literary Creation in English (2003-2008)
• Anne Fagot-Largeault Chair of Philosophy of Life Science (2000-2009)
• Marcel Froissart- Chair of Corpuscular Physics (1973-2004)
• Marc Fumaroli Chair of Rhetoric and Society in 16th and 17th century Europe (1986-2002)
• Jacques Gernet Chair of Social and Intellectual History of China (1975-1992)
• Jacques Glowinski Chair of Neuropharmacology (1983-2006)
• Gilles Gaston Granger Chair of Comparative Epistemology (1986-1991)
• François Gros Chair of Cellular Biochemistry (1973-1996)
• Jean Guilaine Chair of European Civilizations in the Neolithic and the Bronze Age (1995-2007)
• Ian Hacking Chair of Philosophy and History of Scientific Concepts (2001-2006)
• Pierre Hadot Chair of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thinking (1982-1991)
• Claude Hagège Chair of Linguistic Theory (1988-2006)
• Françoise Héritier Chair of Comparative Studies of African Societies (1982-1998)
• François Jacob - Chaire of Cellular Genetics (1964-1991)
• Pierre Joliot Chair of Cellular Bioenergetics (1981-2002)
• Yves Laporte Chair of Neurophysiology (1972-1991)
• Jean Leclant Chair of Egyptology (1979-1990)
• Nicole Le Douarin Chair of Molecular and Cellular Embryology (1988-2000)
• Xavier Le Pichon Chair of Geodynamics (1986-2008)
• Georges Le Rider Chair of Economic and Monetary History of the Hellenistic Orient (1993-1998)
• Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Chair of the History of Modern Civilization (1973-1999)
• Jacques Livage Chair of Chemistry Condensed (2001-2009)
• Edmond Malinvaud Chair of Economic Analysis (1987-1993)
• André Miquel Chair of Classical Arabic Language and Literature (1976-1997)
• Philippe Nozières Chair of Statistical Physics (1983-2000)
• Jean-Claude Pecker Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics (1964-1988)
• Jacques Prentki Chair of Theoretical Physics of Elementary Particles (1964-1983)
• Daniel Roche Chair of French History in the Age of the Enlightenment (1999 - 2005)
• Jacqueline de Romilly Chair of Greece and the Development of Moral and Political Thinking (1973-1984)
• Jean-Pierre Serre Chair of Algebra and Geometry (1956-1994)
• Michel Tardieu Chair of History of Syncretisms in Late Antiquity (1991-2008)
• Javier Teixidor Chair of Semitic Antiquities (1995-2001)
• Jacques Thuillier - Chair of the History of Artistic Creation in France (1977-1998)
• Jacques Tits Chair of Group Theory (1973-2000)
• Pierre Toubert Chair of Occidental History (1992-2003)
• Paul-Marie Veyne Chair of Roman History (1975-1999)
• Nathan Wachtel Chair of the History and Anthropology of Meso- and South American Societies (1992 - 2005)
• Harald Weinrich Chair of Romance Languages and Literatures (1992-1998)