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Born May 8 1906, Plouha (Côtes-du-Nord). Died July 2 1992, Plouha. Education and professional career 1928-1932 : École Normale Supérieure student 1932 : Agrégé in history and geography 1942 : Doctor of Letters 1933-1945 : Teacher at Brest and Rennes high …
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Born in Quinhon (Quy Nhơn) on June 18, 1937, died on March 22, 2025. Xavier Le Pichon was a pioneer in research into the expansion of the ocean floor and continental drift, from the understanding of our planet's global functioning to the study of its …
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Born 11 January 1941 in Deuthen (East Prussia). Married to Annette Lepenies, three children. Doctor of Letters (sociology) summa cum laude from the University of Münster (1967). Professional career Since 1971 : Professor of Sociology at Berlin's Freie …
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Born March 27 1901, Alès (Gard). Died December 23 2000. Education and professional career 1920-1923 : Student at the École Polytechnique, then at the École Supérieure d'Électricité 1924-1929 : Submarine cable engineer 1929 : Collaborator with Duke Maurice …
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Born November 7 1906, Nantes (Chatenay). Died November 10 1998. Education and professional career 1926-1929 : École Normale Supérieure 1929 : Agrégé 1933 : Doctor of Science 1933 : Chargé de Recherches 1938 : Professor at Nancy University 1941 : …
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Xavier Leroy studied mathematics and computer science at the École normale supérieure and Université Paris-Diderot. After a PhD in fundamental computer science in 1992 and a post-doctorate at Stanford University, he became a research fellow at Inria in …
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Claude Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28 1908 in Brussels of French parents. After graduating in law and studying philosophy (agrégation de philosophie in 1931, doctorat ès lettres in 1948), he turned to ethnology. He taught for two years at the lycées …
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Born in Bourbon l'Archambault, January 21 1915. Died December 11 1998. Training and professional career 1937-1941 : Research associate, then research fellow at CNRS 1941-1949 : Lecturer, then Professor of Rational Mechanics at the Strasbourg Faculty of …
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Daniel Lincot, born in 1954, is a CNRS researcher and has been involved in photovoltaic solar energy research since 1978, where he has contributed to significant advances. His specialty is the interface between chemistry, materials and photovoltaics. He …
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Born January 23 1872, Paris. Died December 19 1946. Education and professional career 1888-1891 : Paris School of Physics and Chemistry 1892 : Bachelor's degree in physics 1894-1897 : École normale supérieure 1897 : Agrégé des Sciences physiques 1898 : …
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Born December 21 1920, Toulouse. Died May 15 2012. Education and professional career 1945-1947 : Scholar (Cultural Relations, then Rockefeller Foundation) in the United States 1947 : Doctor of Medicine, Toulouse 1947-1949 : Research Fellow, INH (Institut …
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Thomas Lecuit is a biologist whose research focuses on morphogenesis, i.e. the origin of forms in living organisms, such as a neuron or an embryo. During embryogenesis, millions of cells divide, move, change shape and collectively give rise to a complex …
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Yann LeCun is a researcher in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and robotics, and a graduate of the École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. He …
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Historian and Byzantinist Paul Lemerle (1903-1989) taught at the École française d'Athènes (1931-1941), the Faculté des lettres de Dijon (1942-1947), the École pratique des hautes études (1947-1968) and the Sorbonne (1958-1967). In 1967, he was elected to …
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Born 30 September 1939, Rosheim, Bas-Rhin. Training and professional career 1960-1966 : Researcher, CNRS 1966-1969 : Senior lecturer, University of Strasbourg 1970 : Professor without a chair, University of Strasbourg 1970-1979 : Full professor, …
