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Bernard Derrida is Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, where he held the Statistical Physics Chair from 2014 to 2023. Bernard Derrida was born in 1952 in El Biar, Algeria. His family left Algeria in the spring of 1962, a few weeks before …
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Born in Geneva in 1955, Denis Duboule holds both French and Swiss nationalities. He is Honorary Professor of Genetics at the University of Geneva, where he headed the Department of Genetics and Evolution and the Centre National de Compétence en Génétique. …
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Georges Duby was born in Paris in 1919. He completed his secondary education at the Lycée de Mâcon and his higher education at the University of Lyon. He was awarded the Agrégation in geography in 1942, and soon afterwards recruited by medievalist Jean …
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Born October 28 1896. Died September 19 1981. …
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Thomas W. Ebbesen is a French-Norwegian physical chemist, born in Oslo (Norway) in 1954. He is currently director of the Institut d'études avancées at the University of Strasbourg and of the International Center for Frontier Research in Chemistry . A …
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Born in Alessandria (Piedmont) on January 5 1932. Died in Milan on February 19 2016. Professor of Semiotics at the University of Bologna. His main work in this field (Trattato di Semiotica Generale , 1975) has been translated into all the languages of …
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Born in 1941 in the United States, Stuart Edelstein completed his doctoral studies at the University of California (Berkeley). After a year's postdoctoral training at the Institut Pasteur (Paris) in Jacques Monod's laboratory, he taught at Cornell …
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Born near the River Thames and London, to a mother of distant Norman ancestry and a father who could not be more English. After studying at Cambridge, he became a university professor in England, then the first Briton elected to the Collège de France and …
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Born December 20 1934, Paris. Died on October 21 2015. Education and professional career Lycée Montaigne - Lycée Louis le Grand École Polytechnique (class of 1953) École nationale supérieure des Mines 1959-1973 : French Atomic Energy Commission 1973-2004 …
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Born on June 10, 1932 in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône). In 1986, Marc Fumaroli was elected professor at the Collège de France, on presentation by poet Yves Bonnefoy and historian Jean Delumeau, in a chair entitled "Rhetoric and society in Europe …
