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Elias Zerhouni, a radiologist, has distinguished himself as one of the most influential medical imaging researchers of his generation through his work on high-resolution densitometry and functional CT imaging, as well as quantitative MRI imaging of the …
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Born in Lyon on August 4   1927, Jean Yoyotte began learning Egyptology at the age of 14   first at the École du Louvre, then at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). In 1943-1944, he took part in the recording of excavation records for Pr   Pierre …
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Born 29 June 1951 in Heidelberg, Germany. Education and professional career 1966-1968 : Studies at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 1968 : Bachelor of Sciences in Mathematics ; Bachelor of Sciences in Physics 1969 : Diploma of Advanced Mathematics, …
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Born in Paris on 29 May 1957. Died September 3 2016. Education and professional career 1975-1979 : Studies at the École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm 1977 : Agrégation in mathematics 1979-1988 : CNRS research fellow at École polytechnique, 1985 : …
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Born in Wismar (Germany) in 1927. Died February 26 2022. Harald Weinrich studied Romance philology, classical philology and philosophy at the universities of Münster, Freiburg im Breisgau, Toulouse and Madrid. He received his doctorate in Münster in 1953 …
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Born February 15, 1920. Died January 16, 2001. Education and professional career 1937-1938: Lycée Louis-le-Grand (Paris) 1939-1943: École normale supérieure (Paris) 1943: Agrégation in Philosophy 1943-1944: Teacher at Lycée Victor-Hugo, Besançon …
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Born 8 April 1935, Metz (Moselle). Director of Studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (since 1976). Professor at the Collège de France, holding the Chair in the History and Anthropology of Meso- and South American Societies …
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Born February 6, 1937, Pieter Westbroek studied geology at Leiden University. His doctoral thesis (1967, cum laude ) concerned the paleobiology of Paleozoic brachiopods and in particular the method of shell growth. For the next two years, he studied the …
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Ars longa, vita brevis Roaming Alain Wijffels (b. Switzerland, 1954) studied at various universities in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and England. He holds degrees in philosophy (Antwerp), law (Antwerp, Louvain), criminology (Louvain), canon law …
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Guest lecture by Pierre-Etienne Will, Chair in the History of Modern China . …
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Nobel Prize in Medicine 2021. Ardem Patapoutian is a molecular biologist specializing in sensory transduction. His research has led to the identification of novel ion channels and receptors activated by temperature, mechanical force and increased cell …
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Orhan Pamuk is a writer and essayist who holds the Robert Yik-Fong Chair in the Humanities at Columbia University, New York. Author of numerous novels, including Cevdet Bey et ses fils (1982), La Maison du silence (1983), Le Château blanc (1985), Le Livre …
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Born April 9 1949, Paris (75). Education and professional career 1978 : DEA (post-graduate diploma) in biochemistry/microbiology, Université Denis-Diderot Paris-VII 1979 : Doctor of Medicine thesis at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University, Paris-VI 1979 : CES …