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Claudine Tiercelin is Professor at the Collège de France, holding the "Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge" chair since 2010. A member of the Institut (Académie des sciences morales et politiques) since December 2017, she is also a member of the …

William Marx , critic and literary historian, Professor of Comparative Literatures at the University of Paris Nanterre, former Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and Honorary Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, works on the history of …

Serge Haroche , born in 1944, is Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France and a member of the Académie des Sciences. A former student at the École normale supérieure (ENS), he obtained his doctorate in physics in 1971. He was Professor at Paris VI …

Pierre Joliot , Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, was born in Paris on March 12, 1932. After studying at the Paris Faculty of Science, he worked at the CNRS between 1954 and 1981. He was appointed Chair of Bioenergetics at the Collège de France …

Hélène Langevin-Joliot carried out experimental research, mainly at the Orsay Institute of Nuclear Physics, on subjects opened up by medium-energy nuclear reactions: small-nucleon systems and high-energy excitation structures in nuclei. She was President …

Michel Paty pursued his career as a research scientist in two periods: the first, as an elementary particle physicist at Cern in Geneva (1962-1965), then at the CNRS and the Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, from 1966 to 1983; the second, as a …

Jürgen Renn , Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, currently serves as Chair of the Humanities Section of the Max Planck Society. In collaboration with his research team, he investigates structural changes in systems …

Jimena Canales is an award-winning author and scholar focusing on science in the modern world. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in the History of Science and a BSc in Engineering Physics from the Tecnológico de Monterrey. Her …

Thibault Damour is a theoretical physicist, professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and member of the Académie des Sciences. He is known for his groundbreaking work on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology. His …

Élie During is a lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre, where he teaches contemporary French philosophy. He is currently a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). His research on the notion of space-time takes him to the …

Bernard Derrida was admitted to the École normale supérieure in 1971. After passing the agrégation in physics in 1974, he obtained his doctorate from Orsay University in 1979. In 1979, he joined the CEA's Theoretical Physics Department in Saclay, before …

Jean-François Joanny is Professor of Physics at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris. He has been Managing Director of ESPCI Paris since January 2014. He began his career at the CNRS, Collège de France in Paris, then in Lyon. He was appointed …

Françoise Balibar is Professor Emeritus (Physics) at Paris Diderot University. On behalf of the CNRS, she has organized the publication of six volumes of Einstein's texts (scientific, political, philosophical) translated into French, introduced, commented …

Antoine Compagnon has been Professor of Modern and Contemporary French Literature at the Collège de France since 2006, and Professor at Columbia University (New York). He is a historian of French literature, novelist and critic, author of Le Démon de la …

Françoise Combes is an astrophysicist at Paris Observatory, holder of the "Galaxies and Cosmology" chair at the Collège de France, and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. She is interested in the formation and evolution of galaxies, including …