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Born in Lyon on August 4 1927, Jean Yoyotte began learning Egyptology at the age of 14 first at the École du Louvre, then at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). In 1943-1944, he took part in the recording of excavation records for Pr Pierre …
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Born 29 June 1951 in Heidelberg, Germany. Education and professional career 1966-1968 : Studies at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1968 : Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics ; Bachelor of Sciences in Physics 1969 : Diploma of Advanced Mathematics, …
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021. Ardem Patapoutian is a molecular biologist specializing in sensory transduction. His research has led to the identification of novel ion channels and receptors activated by temperature, mechanical force and increased cell …
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Orhan Pamuk is a writer and essayist who holds the Robert Yik-Fong Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. Author of numerous novels, including Cevdet Bey et ses fils (1982), La Maison du silence (1983), Le Château blanc (1985), Le Livre …
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Born on December 1, 1948 in Bologna (Italy), Daniele Vitali is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Bologna (Italy). Graduated in Classics from the University of Bologna under Prof. G. A. Mansuelli; final thesis in Etruscology: L'acropole de …
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Born in Wismar (Germany) in 1927. Died February 26 2022. Harald Weinrich studied Romance philology, classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Münster, Freiburg im Breisgau, Toulouse and Madrid. He received his doctorate in Münster in 1953 …
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Born February 6, 1937, Pieter Westbroek studied geology at Leiden University. His doctoral thesis (1967, cum laude ) concerned the paleobiology of Paleozoic brachiopods and in particular the method of shell growth. For the next two years, he studied the …
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Born February 15, 1920. Died January 16, 2001. Education and professional career 1937-1938: Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris) 1939-1943: École normale supérieure (Paris) 1943: Agrégation in Philosophy 1943-1944: Teacher at Lycée Victor-Hugo, Besançon …
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Born 8 April 1935, Metz (Moselle). Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (since 1976). Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair in the History and Anthropology of Meso- and South American Societies …
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Born on July 14 1944 in Glay (Doubs). Education and professional career 1969-1976 : Head of research at EHESS 1977-1984 : Senior assistant at EHESS 1985-1987 : Senior Lecturer at EHESS 1988-1991 : Director of Studies, EHESS 1991-2014 : Professor at the …
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Born in Auxerre (Yonne) on February 12, 1904. Died November 19, 1996. Education and professional career Alsatian ancestry on his father's side, Lorraine on his mother's. After the war, his grandparents opted for France, where his father pursued a …
