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Born October 28 1896. Died September 19 1981. …
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A major figure in contemporary sculpture, Tony Cragg was born in Liverpool in 1949. After training in science and a first job as a technician in a chemical laboratory, he began studying art. In 1976, he became a lecturer at the École des Beaux-Arts in …
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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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Jean-Paul Clozel is a doctor. He turned to cardiology and became involved in research. Trained in several laboratories in Nancy, Paris, Montreal and San Francisco, he joined the Hoffmann-Laroche laboratory in 1985, where he contributed to major new drug …
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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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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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Gilbert Dagron was born in 1932. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (1953-1956) and agrégé de lettres classiques (1956), he began his career as cultural attaché to the French Embassy in Moscow, before joining the academic world in 1964 (Sorbonne …
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Jean Dalibard is a physicist specializing inmatter-radiationinteraction, with aparticular focus onlasermanipulationofatoms.After studying at theÉcole normalesupérieure (1977-1981), he completed his doctorate under the supervision of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji …
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Françoise Combes is Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, where she held the Galaxies and Cosmology Chair from 2014 to 2025 . An astrophysicist at Paris Observatory and member of the French Academy of Sciences, Françoise Combes was Deputy Director …
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Born on July 20 1950 in Brussels, Belgium. Education and professional career École Polytechnique alumnus Ponts et Chaussées engineer 1975-1978 : Resident at the Fondation Thiers, CNRS research associate, French linguistics and literature 1978-1985 : …
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Born September 29 1931, Chicago, Illinois. Education 1951 : B.S., Southern Methodist University 1952-1955 : National Science Foundation Fellow 1953 : M.S., University of Chicago 1955 : PhD (Physics), University of Chicago Professional career 1955-1958 : …
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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 …
