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Harold E. Varmus, M.D., co-recipient of the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for studies of the genetic basis of cancer, joined the Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine as the Lewis Thomas University Professor of Medicine in April, …
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Xiao-Jing Wang is Distinguished Global Professor of Neural Science, director of the Swartz Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, adjunct professor of Physics and Mathematics at New York University. In 2012-2017, he served as the founding Provost and Vice …
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Born in Paris on January 28, 1864, Charles-Marie-Joseph Bédier (full name) came from a family on Reunion Island. He spent the first years of his life on the island, which he never called by anything other than its former name, Île Bourbon. After …
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Karol Beffa, born in 1973, combines general and musical studies, after having acted as a child between the ages of seven and twelve in over fifteen films (he played with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under the direction of Giorgio Strehler, interpreted …
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Marco Robalo is the winner of the 2015-2016 Peccot lecture . …
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Antoine Song is the winner of the Peccot lecture for 2020-2021. …
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Jean-Philippe Bouchaud was born in 1962. An alumnus of the École normale supérieure, he is Chairman and Chief Research Officer of Capital Fund Management. A specialist in the statistical physics of disordered media, he is one of the pioneers of …
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Patrick Boucheron was born in Paris in 1965. After completing his secondary education at the Lycée Marcelin-Berthelot (Saint-Maur-des-Fossés) and the Lycée Henri-IV (Paris), he entered the École Normale Supérieure in Saint-Cloud in 1985 and obtained the …
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Professor of Anthropology, University of London. …
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Jean-Daniel Boissonnat Directeur de recherche INRIA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée, Professeur invité, Collège de France …
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Born in Tours (Indre-et-Loire) on June 24 1923. Died on July 1 2016. His parents, originally from the Lot and Aveyron regions, were both railway workers and teachers. After studying mathematics in preparatory classes at the Lycée Descartes in Tours and …
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Gérard Berry is a former student of the École polytechnique, general engineer of the Corps des Mines, member of the Académie des sciences, the Académie des technologies and the Academia Europaea. He was a researcher at the École des mines de Paris and at …
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Born February 18, 1939 Education and professional career 1957-1958 : Baccalauréat in mathematics and philosophy 1963 : Civil engineer in mining and metallurgy 1963 : Degree in psychology 1963 : Attaché, chargé, maître then director of research at CNRS …
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Born in Beirut (Lebanon) in 1973, of Swiss and British nationality, Samantha Besson is Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, and holds the International Law of Institutions Chair since 2019. She has also been Professor of Public International Law …
