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Begho (Ghana) Revisited: An archaeology of Urbanization, Trade and Craftmanship Begho, a medieval urban market town in pre-modern Ghana, flourished from around the 14th-15th century to the mid-18th centuries AD. Begho's beginnings and developments are …
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Born December 23 1903 (Tunis). Died 23 November 1997. Education and professional career 1923-1926 : Student at the École normale supérieure 1926 : Agrégation in Grammar 1927-1933 : Teacher at the Lycée de Tunis 1933-1938 : Teacher at the Lycée d'Alger, …
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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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Born in Paris, August 8 1920. Died September 16 2011. Education and professional career 1940-1945 : Student at the École normale supérieure 1945 : Agrégé de l'Université (for 1944) 1946-1948 : Research associate at the C.N.R.S. and chargé de mission at …
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Born on January 27, 1928 in Saint-Hernin (Finistère). Died July on 3, 2014. Education and professional career 1948-1952: Student at the École normale supérieure 1952: Agrégation des Lettres 1952-1955: École française d'Athènes 1955-1958: French Institute …
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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, …
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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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Born in Algiers on July 15, 1942. Career École polytechnique, Paris (1964, class of 62) ; Joined INED (October 1965) ; Expert demographer, Institut de démographie de Paris (1966) ; Diplôme d'études supérieures en sciences économiques, University of Caen …
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Born August 25 1911, Paris. Died February 19 1986. Education 1931 : Diploma in Russian from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1933 : Diploma in Chinese from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes 1945 : Doctor of Letters …
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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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Pierre-Louis Lions was born on August 11 1956 in Grasse, France. A student at the École normale supérieure from 1975 to 1979, he defended his thesis in 1978 and his state thesis in 1979. A researcher at the CNRS from 1979 to 1981, he became a professor at …
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Director of INSERM Unit U691, created in 2004 within the Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche en biologie (CIRB) at Collège de France, Catherine Llorens-Cortes is a neuroendocrinologist and neuropharmacologist. Since the beginning of her scientific …
