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Born March 27 1901, Alès (Gard). Died December 23 2000. Education and professional career 1920-1923 : Student at the École Polytechnique, then at the École Supérieure d'Électricité 1924-1929 : Submarine cable engineer 1929 : Collaborator with Duke Maurice …
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Born December 23 1903 (Tunis). Died 23 November 1997. Education and professional career 1923-1926 : Student at the École normale supérieure 1926 : Agrégation in Grammar 1927-1933 : Teacher at the Lycée de Tunis 1933-1938 : Teacher at the Lycée d'Alger, …
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Thomas Lecuit is a biologist whose research focuses on morphogenesis, i.e. the origin of forms in living organisms, such as a neuron or an embryo. During embryogenesis, millions of cells divide, move, change shape and collectively give rise to a complex …
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Yann LeCun is a researcher in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and robotics, and a graduate of the École supérieure d'ingénieurs en électronique et électrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie. He …
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Claude Lévi-Strauss was born on November 28 1908 in Brussels of French parents. After graduating in law and studying philosophy (agrégation de philosophie in 1931, doctorat ès lettres in 1948), he turned to ethnology. He taught for two years at the lycées …
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Born in Bourbon l'Archambault, January 21 1915. Died December 11 1998. Training and professional career 1937-1941 : Research associate, then research fellow at CNRS 1941-1949 : Lecturer, then Professor of Rational Mechanics at the Strasbourg Faculty of …
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Born in 1952, Pierre Magistretti holds a doctorate in medicine from the University of Geneva and is a professor of neuroscience. Co-director of the Brain Mind Institute at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), he is also Director of the …
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Bernard Meunier is CNRS Director of Research Emeritus (exceptional grade) at the CNRS Coordination Chemistry Laboratory in Toulouse and Distinguished Professor in the Chemistry Department of Guangdong University of Technology in Guangzhou, China. After a …
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Pierre-Michel Menger attended secondary school in Forbach, then Strasbourg, before being admitted to the École normale supérieure on the rue d'Ulm, where he studied philosophy and then sociology. He was a resident of the Fondation Thiers between 1978 and …
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Romain Mensan is a freelance geoarchaeologist and François-Xavier Fauvelle's main co-investigator on various sites from Morocco to Ethiopia. Geoarchaeological analysis and stratigraphy, operation management Romain Mensan is a geoarchaeologist. A …
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Born March 14 1908, Rochefort-sur-mer. Died May 3 1961. Education and professional career 1926-1930 : École normale supérieure student 1930 : Agrégé in philosophy 1930-1931 : Legal military service 1931-1933 : Teacher at the Lycée de Beauvais National …
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Born in Mèze (France) on September 26 1929. Died December 27 2022. Education 1950-1953 : École normale supérieure alumnus 1953 : Agrégé de grammaire 1953-1954 : Scholar at the French Institute of Arab Studies in Damascus 1954-1955 : Military service …
