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Professor Gérard Berry
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the French Academy of Technologies
Gold Medal of the CNRS
Time and events in Computer Science
6 November 2024
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Professor Françoise Combes
President Elect - French Academy of Sciences
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Sciences Award
Professor at the Collège de France
Black Holes and Active Galaxy Nuclei
8 May 2024
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Professor Marc Fontecave
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the Academia Europaea
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Professor at the Collège de France
Necessities and Challenges of the Energetic Transition
8 November 2023
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Professor Étienne Ghys
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
Directeur de Recherche CNRS
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Member of the Academia Europaea
The Motion of Planets, from a Mathematical Point of View
4 April 2019
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Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage
Professor at the University of Strasbourg
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the European Academy of Sciences
Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2016)
Molecular Machines in Biology and in Chemistry
11 April 2018
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Professor Sébastien Candel
President of the French Academy of Sciences
University professor, emeritus of CentraleSupélec
Founding Member of the Academy of Technology, France
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Engineering, USA
Combustion Modeling and Simulation: Recent Advances, Applications and Challenges
13 September 2017
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Professor Alain Aspect
Institut d’Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK
Nobel Prize in Physics (2022)
Wolf Prize in Physics (2010)
From the Einstein-Bohr Debate to Quantum Information: a New Quantum Revolution
15 February 2017
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Professor Étienne Ghys
Directeur de recherche au CNRS
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the Academia Europaea
The Shape of The Planet Earth? An Unexpectedly Deep Mathematical Challenge!
5 October 2016
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Professor Cédric Villani
Fields Medalist (2010)
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Professor at the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1
Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré
On Particles, Stars and Eternity: from the Stability of the Solar System to Plasma Physics
13 April 2016
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Professor Serge Haroche
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2012)
Fifty Years of Revolutions in Laser Physics
18 November 2015
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Professor Philippe Sansonetti
Professor at the Collège de France
Professor at the Institut Pasteur, France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Foreign Member of the Royal Society, UK
Pathogenic and Symbiotic Microbes at Mucosal Surface: The Yin and Yang of Hygiene
28 October 2015
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Professor Pascale Cossart
Professor at the Institut Pasteur, France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
Foreign Member of the National Academy of Medicine, USA
The Bacterium Listeria Monocytogenes: A Unique Model in Infection Biology
16 September 2015
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Professor Edouard Brézin
Professor Emeritus, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Honorary Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Dirac Medal 2011
From Marie Curie to the Higgs Boson: A Century of Conceptual Crises
19 November 2014
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Professor Pierre-Louis Lions
Professor at the Collège de France
Professor at the Ecole Polytechniqe
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Fields Medalist 1994
On Mean Field Games
10 November 2014
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Professor Yves Bréchet
High Commissioner for Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies, France
Professor, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble
Silver Medal, National Center for Scientific Research, France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
From Materials by Chance to Materials by Design
29 May 2014
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Professor Jean-François Bach
Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the French National Academy of Medicine
Member of the British Academy of Medical Sciences
The Cause of Autoimmune and Allergic Diseases
6 Nov 2013
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Professor Anne Cheng
Professor at the Collège de France
Chair in Intellectual History of China
From Confucian Orthodoxy to Chinese Modernity
16 Oct 2013
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Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Honorary Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Advances in Atomic Physics From Optical Pumping to Quantum Gases
13 Jan 2012
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Professor Jean Salençon
President of the French Academy of Sciences
Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique
Member of the French Academy of Technologies
Sustainable and Realistic Commitments for the Supply of Energy
8 Sep 2010
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Professor Albert Fert
Nobel Laureate in Physics (2007)
Laureate of the Japan Prize (2007)
Professor at Université Paris-Sud
Scientific Director of the CNRS/Thales Laboratory
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones
21 Oct 2009
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Professor Pierre Corvol
President and Professor of Experiental Medicine, Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the French Academy of Medicine
Member of the American Academy of Art and Sciences
Deciphering the Vascular Tree
7 May 2009
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Professor Jacques Livage
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Member of the National Academy of Sciences of India
Bio-inspired Nanostructured Materials
11 Mar 2009
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Professor Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
1994 Fields Medallist
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Random Behaviour of Deterministic Systems
5 Nov 2008
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Professor Jean-Marie Lehn
1987 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Institut de Science et d'Ingénierie Supramoléculaires, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
From Matter to Life: Chemistry? Chemistry!
30 Oct 2007
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Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Chair Professor-at-Large, City University of Hong Kong
Measuring Time: Atomic Clocks and Utracold Atoms
27 Feb 2007
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Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physics
Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Manipulating Atoms with Light: Achievements and Perspectives
1 Mar 2006
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Professor Philippe Kourilsky
President of the Pasteur Institute, Paris
Professor at the Collège de France
Member of the French Academy of Sciences
Neglected Diseases: Worldwide Problems of Research, Regulation and Ethics
19 Jan 2005
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