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Didier Fassin holds the Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies chair, and is Professor of Social Sciences at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, and Director of Studies in Political and Moral Anthropology at the École des …
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Pierre Corvol was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine in 1941. He studied both medicine and science at the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Science in Paris. Appointed intern at Paris hospitals in 1966, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the National …
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Born in Paris, March 4 1898. Bordelais on his father's side, Angevin on his mother's. Died October 11 1986. Education and professional career After studying at Collège de Neufchâteau, Lycées de Troyes and Tarbes, and Lycée Louis-le-Grand, he entered the …
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Esther Duflo is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Reduction and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is also co-founder and co-director of J-PAL, an anti-poverty action …
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Philippe Descola, Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, was born in Paris in 1949. He initially studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, before going on to train in ethnology at the Université Paris-X and the École …
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Education and professional career Michel Devoret, born in Paris in 1953, trained as a telecommunications engineer, then obtained a DEA (post-graduate diploma) in quantum optics from the University of Orsay, followed by a 3e in atomic and molecular …
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After studying Romance philology and oriental languages : Sanskrit at the University of Liège (1962-1967), Jean Kellens was awarded a grant from the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (1969-1974), which enabled him to study at the University …
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Born on July 27 1916 in Strasbourg, father a pharmacist. Died in February 1991. Education and professional career Secondary studies in Saint-Cloud, Belfort then Strasbourg for the baccalauréat and entrance exam to the École normale supérieure 1938-1939 : …