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Michel Foucault is a French philosopher, born on October 15 1926 in Poitiers. Rejecting the medical studies his surgeon father envisioned for him, he studied philosophy and psychology at the École normale supérieure on rue d'Ulm from 1946 onwards. He …
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Born December 20 1934, Paris. Died on October 21 2015. Education and professional career Lycée Montaigne - Lycée Louis le Grand École Polytechnique (class of 1953) École nationale supérieure des Mines 1959-1973 : French Atomic Energy Commission 1973-2004 …
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Born on June 10, 1932 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). In 1986, Marc Fumaroli was elected professor at the Collège de France, on presentation by poet Yves Bonnefoy and historian Jean Delumeau, in a chair entitled "Rhetoric and society in Europe …
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Walter Fontana studied chemistry in Vienna, finishing with a doctoral thesis based on a numerical analysis of the intrinsic folding characteristics of RNA. He continued his research at Los Alamos and the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, where he …
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Jean-Luc Fournet is a papyrologist specializing in the Protobyzantine period (4th-7th centuries). After a stay in Egypt as a scientific member of the IFAO in Cairo (1992-1996), where he familiarized himself with Egypt, its sites and papyrological …
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Born May 17 1940, Lens (France). Died May 14 2022. …
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Born 24 June 1940. Married, 2 children. Education and professional career University of Bonn, University of Freiburg/Brsg 1966 : Doctorate 1966-1970 : Lecturer, University of Bonn 1970-1972 : Senior Lecturer, University of Göttingen 1972 : Habilitation …
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Born on June 1, 1902 in Nainville les Roches (Seine et Oise). Died on May 4, 1986. Education and professional career Secondary studies at Lycée Hoche, Versailles, continued in 1919-1921 at Lycée Louis Le Grand, Paris. 1921-1924: Student at the École …
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Sonia Garel is a neurobiologist and heads the Brain Development and Plasticity team at the Institut de biologie de l'École normale supérieure in Paris (France). Her research focuses on the mechanisms that control the assembly of forebrain neuronal …
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Born in London on April 23 1924. Died on July 8, 2006. Education and professional career 1944 : Degree in economics from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) 1947 : Licencié ès Lettres (History), University of Geneva 1951 : Graduate of the École …
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Born February 28 1927, Paris. Died October 15 1996. Education and professional career 1948 : Diploma in Japanese 1949 : Degree in Law and Literature 1951 : Diploma in Chinese from the École nationale des Langues Orientales vivantes 1951-1955 : …
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Patrick Couvreur, a member of the Académie des Sciences, is Professor Emeritus at Paris-Saclay University. He holds the "Technological Innovation Liliane Bettencourt" chair at the Collège de France (2010), and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de …
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After studying law in Paris, Mireille Delmas-Marty obtained her doctorate (1969), then the agrégation in private law and criminal sciences (1970). After three years as an assistant at the Paris Faculty of Law (1967-1970), she went on to teach at the …
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A historian of religions, Jean Léon Marie Delumeau specializes in Western religious mentalities, and more specifically in Renaissance and Modern Christianity . A committed Christian, his work is dominated by one subject in particular : the feeling of …
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Stanislas Dehaene is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure and holds a doctorate in cognitive psychology. In September 2005, he was appointed Professor at the Collège de France, in the newly-created chair of Experimental Cognitive Psychology, after …
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Born in Chartres in 1913, Jacqueline de Romilly was the daughter of philosophy teacher Maxime David, killed in the war in 1914, and writer Jeanne Malvoisin. She studied in Paris at the Lycée Molière, Lycée Louis-le-Grand, E.N.S. rue d'Ulm and Sorbonne ; …
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Co-founder and President of the Amsterdam School of Social Science Research (ASSR), of which he was Scientific Director from 1987 to 1997, Abram De Swaan has held the Chair of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam since 1973. Born in Amsterdam in 1942, …
