Hubert Curien

Hubert Curien

male, deceased (2005)
Pierre-Louis Curien, Huygens probe, COSPAR, From Lorraine, French Academy of Sciences, Cornimont…CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique
Hubert Curien was a French physicist and a key figure in European science politics, as the President of CERN (1994-1996), the first chairman of the...
Hubert Reeves

Hubert Reeves

male, 77 years old
Astrophysicist, Astronomer, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, astrophysics, hydrogen, environmentalist…Universite de Montreal, Officer of the National Order of Quebec, national aeronautics and space administration, National Centre of Scientific Research
Hubert Reeves is a Canadian (Québécois) astrophysicist and popularizer of science. He has been a Director of Research at the "Centre National de la...
Scott Atran

Scott Atran

male, 57 years old
Columbia University, evolutionary psychology, religion, nature, Cognitive science, Hebrew University…National Security Council, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique
Scott Atran is an American anthropologist. He was born in New York City in 1952 and received his PhD in anthropology from Columbia University....
Georges Charpak

Georges Charpak

male, 85 years old
physicist, European Organization for Nuclear Research, College de France, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Ecole des Mines, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique…National Centre for Scientific Research
Georges Charpak is a Polish-French physicist and Nobel Prize in Physics winner. Charpak was born in the village of Dąbrowica in Poland (modern D...
Henry Rousso

Henry Rousso

male
World War II, passé qui ne passe pas, national scientific research Center, Die Vergangenheit, die nicht vergehen will, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique…Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Henry Rousso is a contemporary French historian specializing in World War II France. He studied at the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, th...

Jean-Pierre Petit

male
French, scientist, CNRS, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, National Center for Scientific Research, Anselme Lanturlu
Jean-Pierre Petit is a French scientist, retired member of the CNRS ("Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique", "National Center for...

Stéphane Courtois

male, 62 years old
historian, French, Communism, communisme, CNRS, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique
Stéphane Courtois is a French historian. He is currently employed as research director (i.e. senior research scientist) at the "Centre National de l...

Jean-Yves Empereur

male, 57 years old
Alexandria, École française d'Athènes, University Paris IV Sorbonne, Centre d'études Alexandrines, Thasos, Amathus…CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, Agrégation de lettres
Jean-Yves Empereur is a French archeologist and egyptologist. He studied classic literature in the University Paris IV Sorbonne (DEA, CAPES,...

Gérard Prunier

male
PhD, CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, CNRS, rwandan genocide, Darfur conflict, Scholar
Gérard Prunier is a French academic and historian specializing in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. Prunier received a PhD in African History in 1...
Leon Poliakov

Leon Poliakov

male, deceased (1997)
Jewish, Historian of the Holocaust, historian, Russian, Jewish person, nuremberg trial…CentreNationaldelaRechercheScientifique, Centre de Documentation Juive
Léon Poliakov was a historian who wrote extensively on the Holocaust and anti-Semitism. Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russian E...