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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 …
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Born 24 June 1940. Married, 2 children. Education and professional career University of Bonn, University of Freiburg/Brsg 1966 : Doctorate 1966-1970 : Lecturer, University of Bonn 1970-1972 : Senior Lecturer, University of Göttingen 1972 : Habilitation …
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Born February 28 1927, Paris. Died October 15 1996. Education and professional career 1948 : Diploma in Japanese 1949 : Degree in Law and Literature 1951 : Diploma in Chinese from the École nationale des Langues Orientales vivantes 1951-1955 : …
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Michel Foucault is a French philosopher, born on October 15 1926 in Poitiers. Rejecting the medical studies his surgeon father envisioned for him, he studied philosophy and psychology at the École normale supérieure on rue d'Ulm from 1946 onwards. He …
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Jean-Luc Fournet is a papyrologist specializing in the Protobyzantine period (4th-7th centuries). After a stay in Egypt as a scientific member of the IFAO in Cairo (1992-1996), where he familiarized himself with Egypt, its sites and papyrological …
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Born in Nice on April 7, 1900. Died on February 8, 1994. Education and professional career 1919: Licence ès Lettres 1930: Agrégation in History and Geography 1925-1927: Teacher at Collège de Bône 1927-1932: Teacher at Lycée de Tourcoing 1932-1934: …
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Tatiana Giraud is Director of Research at the CNRS, member of the French Academy of Sciences, lecturer at the École Polytechnique, deputy director of the Écologie systématique évolution unit (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, AgroParisTech), CNRS silver and …
