Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

male, deceased (1984)
Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 - June 25, 1984) was a French philosopher and historian. He held a chair at the Collège de France, giving it the t...
Jacques Tits

Jacques Tits

male, 79 years old
Jacques Tits is a Belgian mathematician. He has written and cowritten a large number of papers on a number of subjects, principally group theory....
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

Pierre-Gilles de Gennes

male, deceased (2007)
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (October 24, 1932 in Paris - May 18, 2007 in Orsay) was a French physicist and the Nobel laureate in 1991.
Raymond Aron

Raymond Aron

male, deceased (1983)
Raymond-Claude-Ferdinand Aron (March 14, 1905 - October 17, 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist and political scientist. He was known for...
Jean-Pierre Changeux

Jean-Pierre Changeux

male, 73 years old
Jean-Pierre Changeux is a French neuroscientist, who researched many different areas of biology in his life, from the structure and function of...
Jacques Bouveresse

Jacques Bouveresse

male, 69 years old
Jacques Bouveresse is a philosopher who has written on subjects including Ludwig Wittgenstein, Musil, Karl Kraus, the philosophy of science,...
Alain Connes

Alain Connes

male, 62 years old
Alain Connes was born in Draguignan, a town near Cannes in the Provence- Alpes-Cote-d'Azur region of southeast France. He entered the Ecole Normale...
Pierre Rosanvallon

Pierre Rosanvallon

male
Pierre Rosanvallon is a French intellectual and historian, named professor at the Collège de France in 2001. He holds there the chair in the m...
Jean-Pierre Vernant

Jean-Pierre Vernant

male, deceased (2007)
Jean-Pierre Vernant was a French historian and anthropologist, specialist in ancient Greece. Influenced by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Vernant developed a...
Stanislas Dehaene

Stanislas Dehaene

male, 44 years old
Stanislas Dehaene is a Professor at the Collège de France and has been director of INSERM Unit 562 (the French equivalent of the U.S. National I...