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Marcel Mauss was born on May 10 1872 into a Jewish family from Épinal. He was the nephew of Émile Durkheim, who greatly influenced him. In 1890, rather than attending the École normale supérieure, he chose to follow his uncle's lectures at the University …
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Born October 19 1932, Odessa, Ukraine. Canadian nationality. Married. Full Professor, Department of Linguistics and Translation, Université de Montréal. Education and university degrees 1950-1956 : University studies, Chair of Romano-Germanic Philology, …
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Born in 1930 in Mopoyem (Dabou), Côte d'Ivoire. Ivory Coast nationality. Married, 6 children. University of Abidjan (Côte d'Ivoire). Education 1956 : Bachelor of Arts 1957 : Diplôme d'études supérieures de philosophie, Université Aix-Marseille 1970 : …
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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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Perry Anderson , of Anglo-Irish origin, was educated in the UK at Eton and Oxford. He is a research professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) , USA. He has taught in Latin America ; lectured in Russia, China and India ; and …
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Born in Lorient, Morbihan, on August 20 1930. Education and professional career 1954 : Agrégation in natural sciences Freelance researcher in Prof. Étienne Wolff's laboratory at Nogent-sur-Marne, until 1960, when he was seconded to the teaching profession …
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Born May 8 1906, Plouha (Côtes-du-Nord). Died July 2 1992, Plouha. Education and professional career 1928-1932 : École Normale Supérieure student 1932 : Agrégé in history and geography 1942 : Doctor of Letters 1933-1945 : Teacher at Brest and Rennes high …
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Born in Quinhon (Quy Nhơn) on June 18, 1937, died on March 22, 2025. Xavier Le Pichon was a pioneer in research into the expansion of the ocean floor and continental drift, from the understanding of our planet's global functioning to the study of its …
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Jean-Paul Laumond is Director of Research at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse. He heads the Gepetto research group, whose work focuses on the computational foundations of anthropomorphic movement, both in humans and in artificial systems (humanoid robots and digital …
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Born in 1954, Henry Laurens attended elementary and high school in Paris. He studied in the literary preparatory classes at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand from 1973 to 1976 and began studying Arabic that same year. In 1977–1978, he completed his national …
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Yanick Lahens was born in Haiti. After university studies in France, she returned to her homeland. There, she taught literature at university, hosted a cultural program on Radio Haïti Inter, and published articles on Haitian literature and the links …
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Amaury Lambert graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1997 and received a PhD in probability theory in 2001 from Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC Univ Paris 6). He then spent 7 years as a UPMC assistant professor at the Lab of Ecology and Evolution …
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Born January 23 1872, Paris. Died December 19 1946. Education and professional career 1888-1891 : Paris School of Physics and Chemistry 1892 : Bachelor's degree in physics 1894-1897 : École normale supérieure 1897 : Agrégé des Sciences physiques 1898 : …
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Born December 21 1920, Toulouse. Died May 15 2012. Education and professional career 1945-1947 : Scholar (Cultural Relations, then Rockefeller Foundation) in the United States 1947 : Doctor of Medicine, Toulouse 1947-1949 : Research Fellow, INH (Institut …
