Testimonial

Hélène Langevin-Joliot carried out experimental research, mainly at the Orsay Institute of Nuclear Physics, on subjects opened up by medium-energy nuclear reactions: small-nucleon systems and high-energy excitation structures in nuclei. She was President of the Nuclear Physics Section of the CNRS and a member of its Scientific Council. She was involved in movements against the nuclear arms race. She chaired the Union rationaliste from 2004 to 2012, and in her lectures promotes the place of women in science and scientific culture for all. With Jacques Haïssinski, she has published Science et culture. Repères pour une culture scientifique commune (Apogée, 2015); with Monique Bordry (ed.), Marie Curie et ses filles, lettres (Pygmalion, 2011).