Maurice Allais

Maurice Allais

male, 98 years old
physicist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, decision theory, expected utility theory, Sidereal day, Fellow of the Econometric Society elected in 1949…Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
Maurice Allais (born May 31, 1911 in Paris, France) is a well-known economist, and was the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics...
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, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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...
Carlos Ghosn

Carlos Ghosn

male, 55 years old
nissan, renault, chief executive, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, lebanese, fortune…Ecole des Mines de Paris, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, ecole polytechnique, Mines from Paris hifg school, Notre Dame de Jamhour school
Carlos Ghosn is CEO of Renault and Nissan Motors. He is largely credited with turning around Nissan. As an outsider in charge of one of Japan's...
Tidjane Thiam

Tidjane Thiam

male, 47 years old
Coup D'etat, 100 Global Leader for Tomorrow, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, World Economic Forum, INSEAD, MBA…ecole polytechnique
Tidjane Thiam is managing director, Aviva International, and chief executive Aviva Europe. He was Minister of Planning and Development of Côte d...
Georges Charpy

Georges Charpy

male, deceased (1945)
French, scientist, Academic, ecole polytechnique, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Charpy impact test
Georges Charpy is the French scientist who created the Charpy impact test. His full name is Georges Augustin Albert Charpy. He attended École P...
Fouad Laroui

Fouad Laroui

male, 51 years old
PhD, Médi1, writer, historian, Moroccan, economics…Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Office Cherifien des Phosphates
Fouad Laroui (1958 -) is a Moroccan economist and writer, born in Oujda, Morocco. After his studies in the Lycée Lyautey (Casablanca), he joined t...
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse

Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse

male, deceased (1881)
igneous rock, Mineralogist, Geologist, soil, French, University of Paris…ecole polytechnique, Ingénieur des Mines, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Ecole des Mines, Revue des progrès de géologie
Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse was a French geologist and mineralogist. He was born at Metz. At the age of twenty he entered the Ecole...

Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois

male, deceased (1886)
Chemist, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, From Paris, Légion d'honneur recipient, Academic, element
Alexandre-Emile Béguyer de Chancourtois was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of a...
Paul Tapponnier

Paul Tapponnier

male
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Institute for Scientific Information, Académie des sciences, Institut de Physique du Globe, Légion d’honneur
Paul Tapponnier was born on January 6 1947 in Annecy, France. He became an engineer from the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines de...

Aimé Lepercq

male, deceased (1944)
World War II, Alumni of the École Polytechnique, World War I, French, artillery, legion of honor…Croix de guerre recipient, liberation of paris, ecole polytechnique, Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris, Ecole des Mines
Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure. Born in Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or, Rhône, as the eldest of nine ch...