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Born in Paris in 1955 of Chinese parents, Anne Cheng completed a full course at the Ecole de la République, nurtured by classical and European humanities, all the way to the École normale supérieure, before choosing to devote herself entirely to Chinese …
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Born in 1911. Died in 2001. Education and professional career Philosophy and Khâgne at Lycée Henri IV (Alain's pupil) 1932: École normale supérieure Agrégation in History Doctorat ès Lettres (thesis: " the economic and social foundations of the political …
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Since September 2019, Despina Chatzivasiliou has been a research engineer at the Collège de France associated with four chairs at the Institute of Civilizations (Jean-Pierre Brun, Techniques and Economies in the Ancient Mediterranean ; Jean-Luc Fournet, …
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Bernard Chazelle (Dipl. Mines-Paris, PhD Yale) has been a professor at Princeton University since 1986, where he holds the Eugene Higgins Chair in Computer Science. Director of the NSF Center for Computational Intractability, his research focuses on …
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Gilles Clément, born October 6 1943 in Argenton-sur-Creuse (Indre), is a French gardener, landscape architect, botanist, entomologist, biologist and writer. After training as a horticultural engineer (1967) and landscape gardener (1969) at the Institut …
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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 …
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Born November 13 1948, Libourne (Gironde), married, four children. Education and professional career 1971 : Agrégé de lettres classiques 1973-1977 : Assistant in Egyptology at the Sorbonne (Paris-IV) 1977 : Doctorate in Egyptology and Ancient Oriental …
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Born December 22 1921, Algiers. Died on March 4 2018. Education and professional career Secondary studies at Lycée Bugeaud, Algiers 1942 : advanced studies at the Faculté des Lettres d'Alger, licentiate in classics and DES 1942-1945 : mobilized, campaign …
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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) …
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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 : …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Born on September 11 1949 in Paris. Medical training and career 1975-1979 : Medical intern (pediatrics) 1981-1984 : Assistant Registrar, Hôpital Necker-Enfants malades, Pediatric Immunology and Hematology Unit (UIH) 1984-1988 : Hospital practitioner, …
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Christian Gollier's research spans the fields of economics of uncertainty, environmental economics, finance, consumption, insurance and cost-benefit analysis, with a particular interest in long-term sustainable effects. He founded the Toulouse School of …
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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 …