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Born in 1940 in Oslo, Jon Elster studied in Oslo and Paris, where he defended his thesis " Production et Reproduction : Essai sur Marx " for the Doctorat ès lettres et sciences humaines in 1972. After teaching sociology for some time at the University of …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Maurice Halbwachs was born on March 11 1877. A French sociologist and disciple of Émile Durkheim, he is the author of Les Cadres sociaux de la mémoire , his major work on what Maurice Halbwachs referred to as " la mémoire collective ". A universal …
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Born in Casablanca in 1944, Serge Haroche studied at the École normale supérieure (ENS). He was a researcher at the CNRS, lecturer at the École Polytechnique, professor at the University of Paris-VI and member of the Institut de France. He taught for …
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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 April 24, 1925 in Paris (17 th arrondissement), French nationality. Married, three children. Died February 18, 2022. Education and professional career 1942-1944: Toulouse Faculty of Science 1944-1945: Paris Faculty of Science 1945-1946: Research …
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After studying at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (Paris) and the École Normale Supérieure, Béatrice Golinelli completed a thesis in enzymology at the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris on an ammonia-channel enzyme involved in sugar …
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Tatiana Giraud is Director of Research at the CNRS, member of the French Academy of Sciences, lecturer at the École Polytechnique, deputy director of the Écologie systématique évolution unit (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech), CNRS silver and …
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Amos Gitai was born in 1950 in Haifa, Israel. The son of a Bauhaus-trained architect, Munio Weinraub, who fled Nazism in 1933, and an intellectual and teacher, Efratia Gitai, a non-religious biblical scholar born in Palestine in the early 20th century , …
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Jean Guilaine joined the CNRS in 1963 as a research associate, and left the organization in 1993 with the rank of research director of exceptional rank. In 1978, he became director of studies at the É cole des hautes études en sciences sociales (chair …
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Born February 21 1922, Paris. Died April 24 2010. Training and professional career 1949-1964 : Trainee, then attaché, then research fellow at CNRS 1964-1985 : Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études. Director of studies : Theology and …
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Born in 1936 in Carthage (Tunisia). Education and professional career From an early age, Claude Hagège lived in an environment conducive to the discovery of many languages. His later studies (entrance to the École normale supérieure in 1955) and the …
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Jean-Baptiste Guillon is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and holds a doctorate from the University of Nantes. He was formerly Professor Tiercelin's assistant at the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge Chair. He is currently profesor …
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Born February 18 1936, Vancouver, Canada. Died May 10, 2023. Training and professional career 1956 : B. A., University of British Columbia 1957 : B. A., Cambridge University 1961-1962 : Instructor, Princeton University 1962 : M. A., Ph. D., Cambridge …
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Born in Lorient, Morbihan, on August 20 1930. Education and professional career 1954 : Agrégation in natural sciences Freelance researcher in Prof. Étienne Wolff's laboratory at Nogent-sur-Marne, until 1960, when he was seconded to the teaching profession …
