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Claudine Tiercelin is Honorary Professor at the Collège de France, where she held the chair in Metaphysics and Philosophy of Knowledge from 2010 to 2025. She studied at the universities of Paris-IV, Berkeley and Paris-I, where, under the supervision of …
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Born on August 12 1930 in Uccle, Belgium, Jacques Tits was a mathematician whose work focused on geometry, algebra and group theory. Jacques Tits died on December 5 2021. Training and professional career 1948-1956 : Boursier du Fonds national (belge) de …
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Born November 29, 1932 in Algiers. Died June 5, 2025. Education and professional career 1952-1958 : Student at the École normale supérieure 1958 : Agrégé d'histoire 1958-1961 : Member of the École française de Rome 1964-1993 : Director of Studies at the …
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Jacques Nichet was born in Albi in 1942. In 1965, he founded the Théâtre de l'Aquarium at the ENS, which he ran until 1968. In 1970, he brought together a group of artists (including Jean-Louis Benoît and Didier Bezace) under the same name. In 1973, the …
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Docteur d'État en droit (Bordeaux, 1979), agrégé des Facultés de droit (1980), doctor h.c. of the universities of Louvain-la-Neuve, Aristotle of Thessalonica, Liège and Buenos Aires, Alain Supiot is Professor Emeritus of the Collège de France and …
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Céline Surprenant is a researcher at the Collège de France Institute of Literary and Linguistic Studies and a permanent member of "République des Savoirs" (UAR 3608). Among other activities, she coordinates the programme "Passage des disciplines : …
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Born in 1935 in Hamm, Westphalia. Education and professional career 1955 : Abitur (A-levels) 1955-1961 : Studies (history, French, English) at the universities of Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau, Grenoble 1961 : Staatsexamen 1962-1963 : Instructor …
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Born in Paris on December 17 1948. Alain Prochiantz graduated from the École normale supérieure (ENS) and obtained his doctorate from the Université Denis-Diderot in Paris. He headed the CNRS unit " development and evolution of the nervous system ", as …
