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Benoît Peeters was born in Paris on August 28 1956. After graduating in philosophy, he studied at the École Pratique des Hautes Études under Roland Barthes, devoting a detailed study to Hergé's Les Bijoux de la Castafiore . He holds a habilitation to …
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Lydéric Bocquet is a physicist whose research lies at the intersection of fluid dynamics, condensed matter, and nanoscience. After completing his Ph.D. under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Hansen in Lyon, he began his scientific career as a research …
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Georges Duby was born in Paris in 1919. He completed his secondary education at the Lycée de Mâcon and his higher education at the University of Lyon. He was awarded the Agrégation in geography in 1942, and soon afterwards recruited by medievalist Jean …
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Esther Duflo is the Lemann Foundation Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich and holds the Chair in Poverty and Public Policies at the Collège de France. She is also a co-founder and co-director of J-PAL, the poverty action …
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Born in Paris, March 4 1898. Bordelais on his father's side, Angevin on his mother's. Died October 11 1986. Education and professional career After studying at Collège de Neufchâteau, Lycées de Troyes and Tarbes, and Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he entered the …
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Born February 7 1918, Tunis. Died in Nice on July 17 1997. Professional career 1948 : Doctor of Law, University of Paris 1950 : Professor of Law at the Universities of Algiers, Aix-en-Provence, Nice and Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Honorary Dean of the …
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Born on November 13 1940. Education and professional career 1960 : Certificate of Indian Studies, Lyon 1961-1963 : Diplôme d'études supérieures : Les emplois adnominaux du génitif en latin Degree in Classics, Lyon-Paris 1962-1965 : École normale …
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Born in 1955, composer Pascal Dusapin has rapidly established himself as one of the strongest and most original personalities in music today. He is the author of numerous works, including five operas (among them Perelà, uomo di fumo , premiered at the …
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Born August 6 1912, Paris. Died in Versailles on January 14 1997. Training and professional career 1942-1943 : Director of excavations in North Africa (Djerba, Cherchel, Tipasa) 1943 : Director of excavations at Nice-Cimiez 1944-1946 : Assistant in …
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Thomas W. Ebbesen is a French-Norwegian physical chemist, born in Oslo (Norway) in 1954. He is currently director of the Institut d'études avancées at the University of Strasbourg and of the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry . A …
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Born in Alessandria (Piedmont) on January 5 1932. Died in Milan on February 19 2016. Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna. His main work in this field (Trattato di Semiotica Generale , 1975) has been translated into all the languages of …
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Born in 1941 in the United States, Stuart Edelstein completed his doctoral studies at the University of California (Berkeley). After a year's postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) in Jacques Monod's laboratory, he taught at Cornell …
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Born near the River Thames and London, to a mother of distant Norman ancestry and a father who could not be more English. After studying at Cambridge, he became a university professor in England, then the first Briton elected to the Collège de France and …
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Born in 1940 in Oslo, Jon Elster studied in Oslo and Paris, where he defended his thesis " Production et Reproduction : Essai sur Marx " for the Doctorat ès lettres et sciences humaines in 1972. After teaching sociology for some time at the University of …
