Einstein's travels and the new perspectives of physics in the 1920s and 1930s

Michel Paty pursued his career as a research scientist in two periods: the first, as an elementary particle physicist at Cern in Geneva (1962-1965), then at the CNRS and the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, from 1966 to 1983; the second, as a philosopher and historian of science, at the CNRS and the Université Paris Diderot since then, continuing his work after his retirement in 2003 (then appointed Dir. de recherche émérite), notably on the concepts and structures of physical theories. He has also taught and trained doctoral students as a visiting professor in Brazil and Colombia (he is a corresponding member of the Colombian Academy of Sciences). His published works include: Études d'interactions de neutrinos (Cern, 1965); La Matière dérobée (Archives contemporaines, 1988); L'Analyse critique des sciences (L'Harmattan, 1990); Einstein philosophe du ^XXe siècle (EDP-Sciences, 2003). Also forthcoming: Einstein, Quantum and Reality ; The Intelligibility of the Quantum Domain ; Creative Reason and the Problem of the Foundations of Scientific Knowledge.