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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 …

Education and professional career Michel Devoret, born in Paris in 1953, trained as a telecommunications engineer, then obtained a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in quantum optics from the University of Orsay, followed by a 3e  in atomic and molecular …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Born August 11 1933, Rzeszow (Poland). Died January 14 1999. Training and professional career 1951-1955 : Studied acting at the National Theatre School (Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola Teatralna) in Krakow, Poland 1955 : Master's degree in acting, University of …

Rachid Guerraoui is a world-renowned specialist in distributed algorithms. Trained at the Université d'Orsay (now the Université Paris-Saclay), he was a visiting professor at MIT and worked at the prestigious Hewlett Packard laboratories in Paolo Alto …

Born on November 6 1952, Frantz Grenet was a student at the École normale supérieure from 1972 to 1977, and received his agrégation in history in 1975. From 1977 to 1981, he was posted to Kabul as deputy director of the DAFA (Délégation archéologique …

Born in Paris on January 28 1920. Died August 24 2016. Education and professional career Former student at ENS rue d'Ulm Agrégé in philosophy Licentiate in mathematics Doctor of Letters 1947-1953 : Professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) …

Timothy Gowers was born in Marlborough, UK, in 1963. He studied mathematics at Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Béla Bollobás. After two years as Research Fellow at Trinity College (Cambridge), he became …

André Grabar was born in Kyiv (Ukraine) on July 26, 1896. He completed his secondary education there, graduating in 1913 in Russia. Unfit for military service, he took no part in either the 1914-1918 war or the Russian Civil War (1918-1920), and left …

Doctor of Religious Studies from the University of Lausanne, specializing in the Hebrew Bible and the history of ancient Israel. Her work focuses on the prophetic literature of the Hebrew Bible and the socio-political history of Judea in the Persian and …

Born April 5 1939. Died May 9 2018. Education and professional career Higher education in Paris 1959-1963 : École normale supérieure (Ulm) 1962 : Agrégation in Classics 1963-1964 : Second lieutenant at the École d'Application des Transmissions …

Born August 31 1900, Tunis (Tunisia). Died May 13 1999, Brussels (Belgium). Education and professional career 1923 : Teacher at Lycée Carnot, Tunis 1926 : Teacher at Collège Chasseloup-Laubat, Saïgon 1927 : Teacher at Lycée Albert Sarraut, Hanoi 1932 : …