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Professor of Anthropology, University of London. …
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French philosopher Henri Bergson was born in Paris on October 18 1859. At less than forty years of age, he became the most famous philosopher of his time, and his work has taken its place in the history of philosophy alongside those of the greatest …
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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 …
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Born in Pertuis (Vaucluse) on December 18 1917. Died May 14 2015. 1937 : École normale supérieure (Lettres) 1941 : Agrégé des Lettres 1958 : Docteur ès-Lettres (Sorbonne) Training and professional career October 1939-1940 : Teacher at Lycée Chateaubriand …
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Born in Gien (Loiret) on December 2, 1919. Died on July 14, 1993. Education and professional career 1947: Diploma in Chinese from the École Nationale des Langues Orientales Vivantes, Paris Trainee at the Centre de Formation à la Recherche en Ethnologie, …
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Born on June 4, 1910. Died June on 27, 1995. Education and professional career 1955: Doctorate from the Sorbonne. Initiator of an agrarian reform project, he was sent to the Atlas region, where he was to write his main thesis, the other on a 17 th century …
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Theodor Berchem, born in 1935, is Professor Emeritus of Romance Philology at the University of Würzburg. He studied Romance languages and English at Cologne and the Sorbonne. He has also acquired knowledge of some fifteen other languages. His teachers …
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Pierre Bercier works in the Nuclear Organization and Post-Translational Control in Pathophysiology team at the Collège de France's Interdisciplinary Biology Research Center, under the supervision of Prof. Hugues de Thé, Chair of Cellular and Molecular …
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Born on November 6 1952, Frantz Grenet was a student at the École normale supérieure from 1972 to 1977, and received his agrégation in history in 1975. From 1977 to 1981, he was posted to Kabul as deputy director of the DAFA (Délégation archéologique …
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Rachid Guerraoui is a world-renowned specialist in distributed algorithms. Trained at the Université d'Orsay (now the Université Paris-Saclay), he was a visiting professor at MIT and worked at the prestigious Hewlett Packard laboratories in Paolo Alto …
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Roger Guesnerie began his career in economics as a research fellow at CERMAP (Centre d'études et de recherches mathématiques appliquées à la planification), then at CEPREMAP (Centre d'études prospectives et de recherches en économie mathématique appliquée …
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Timothy Gowers was born in Marlborough, UK, in 1963. He studied mathematics at Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate under the supervision of Béla Bollobás. After two years as Research Fellow at Trinity College (Cambridge), he became …
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André Grabar was born in Kyiv (Ukraine) on July 26, 1896. He completed his secondary education there, graduating in 1913 in Russia. Unfit for military service, he took no part in either the 1914-1918 war or the Russian Civil War (1918-1920), and left …
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Born in Paris on January 28 1920. Died August 24 2016. Education and professional career Former student at ENS rue d'Ulm Agrégé in philosophy Licentiate in mathematics Doctor of Letters 1947-1953 : Professor at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) …
