100 Notable alumni of
National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
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The National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris is 474th in the world, 167th in Europe, and 11th in France by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris won Nobel Prizes in Economics.
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Carlos Ghosn
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- entrepreneurwriterbusiness executiveengineerinternational forum participant
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Carlos Ghosn is a businessman and former automotive executive, widely known for having dramatically fled house arrest in 2019 in Japan, while awaiting trial on financial impropriety charges related to his tenure at Nissan.
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Henri Poincaré
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1875
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- topologistphilosopher of sciencephilosopherpolymathwriter
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Jules Henri Poincaré was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. Due to his scientific success, influence and his discoveries, he has been deemed "the philosopher par excellence of modern science."
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Jacques Attali
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- writerinternational forum participanteconomistbankerpolitician
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Jacques José Mardoché Attali is a French economic and social theorist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant.
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Albert François Lebrun
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- politicianengineerentomologist
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Albert François Lebrun was a French politician, President of France from 1932 to 1940. He was the last president of the Third Republic. He was a member of the centre-right Democratic Republican Alliance (ARD).
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Tidjane Thiam
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1984-1986
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Tidjane Thiam is an Ivorian and French businessman, and the executive chairman of Freedom Acquisition Corp. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Swiss bank Credit Suisse from March 2015 to February 2020. He was the chief financial officer of British banking group Prudential from 2007 to 2009, and then its CEO until 2015. In 2019, Thiam became a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
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Alain Poher
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- statespersonpoliticianFrench Resistance fighter
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Alain Émile Louis Marie Poher was a French politician who briefly served as Acting President of France twice, in 1969 and 1974. He held the office ad interim as President of the Senate following the resignation of Charles de Gaulle and the death of Georges Pompidou. Poher was affiliated with the Popular Republican Movement (MRP) until 1966 and later with the Democratic Centre (CD) and Centre of Social Democrats (CSD), which he joined in 1976.
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Léon Walras
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- economistprofessormathematician
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Marie-Esprit-Léon Walras was a French mathematical economist and Georgist. He formulated the marginal theory of value (independently of William Stanley Jevons and Carl Menger) and pioneered the development of general equilibrium theory. Walras is best known for his book Éléments d'économie politique pure, a work that has contributed greatly to the mathematization of economics through the concept of general equilibrium. The definition of the role of the entrepreneur found in it was also taken up and amplified by Joseph Schumpeter.
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Anne Lauvergeon
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersoninternational forum participantphysicistengineer
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Anne Lauvergeon is a French businesswoman who served as CEO of Areva from 2001 until 2011. According to The Wall Street Journal, she is known internationally as one of the most prominent defenders of nuclear power.
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Patrick Pouyanné
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- entrepreneurindustrialistbusinesspersonengineerinternational forum participant
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Patrick Jean Pouyanné is a French engineer who has been serving as chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies since 2014.
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Ignacy Domeyko
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- university teachergeographermeteorologistmining engineergeologist
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Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko, pseudonym: Żegota was a Polish geologist, mineralogist, educator, and founder of the University of Santiago, in Chile. Domeyko spent most of his life, and died, in his adopted country, Chile.
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Georges Charpak
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- researcherphysicistFrench Resistance fighter
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Georges Charpak ( French: [ʃaʁpak]; born Jerzy Charpak, (1 August 1924 – 29 September 2010) was a Polish-born French physicist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992.
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Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1840
- Occupations
- academicmineralogistgeologistchemist
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Alexandre-Émile Béguyer de Chancourtois was a French geologist and mineralogist who was the first to arrange the chemical elements in order of atomic weights, doing so in 1862. De Chancourtois only published his paper, but did not publish his actual graph with the irregular arrangement. Although his publication was significant, it was ignored by chemists as it was written in terms of geology. It was Dmitri Mendeleev's table published in 1869 that became most recognized. De Chancourtois was also a professor of mine surveying, and later geology at the École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. He also was the Inspector of Mines in Paris, and was widely responsible for implementing many mine safety regulations and laws during the time.
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Maurice Allais
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- physicistengineerresearchereconomist
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Maurice Félix Charles Allais was a French physicist and economist, the 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering contributions to the theory of markets and efficient utilization of resources", along with John Hicks (Value and Capital, 1939) and Paul Samuelson (The Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1947), to neoclassical synthesis. They formalize the self-regulation of markets, which Keynes refuted but reiterated some of Allais's ideas.
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Bernard Chazelle
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- computer scientistengineermathematician
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Bernard Chazelle is a French-born computer scientist. He is currently the Eugene Higgins Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. Much of his work is in computational geometry, where he is known for his study of algorithms, such as linear-time triangulation of a simple polygon, as well as major complexity results, such as lower bound techniques based on discrepancy theory. He is also known for his invention of the soft heap data structure and the most asymptotically efficient known deterministic algorithm for finding minimum spanning trees.
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Henry Louis Le Châtelier
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1871-1873
- Occupations
- chemistengineerprofessor
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Henry Louis Le Chatelier was a French chemist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised Le Chatelier's principle, used by chemists and chemical engineers to predict the effect a changing condition has on a system in chemical equilibrium.
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Isabelle Kocher
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- business executivebusinesspersoninternational forum participant
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Isabelle Kocher is a French businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer of Engie (previously GDF Suez) until February 24 2020.
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Salvador de Madariaga
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- novelistacademicessayistliterary criticengineer
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Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo was an "eminent liberal" Spanish diplomat, writer, historian, and pacifist, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Nobel Peace Prize and awarded the Charlemagne Prize in 1973.
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Najla Bouden
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- In 1987 graduated with doctorate in engineering geology
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- politicianinternational forum participantacademic
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Najla Bouden, also known as Najla Bouden Romdhane, is a Tunisian geologist and university professor who served as the prime minister of Tunisia from October 2021 to August 2023. She took office on 11 October 2021, making her the first female prime minister both in Tunisia and the Arab world. She previously served in the education ministry in 2011.
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Camille Jordan
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- engineermathematicianuniversity teacherprofessor
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Marie Ennemond Camille Jordan was a French mathematician, known both for his foundational work in group theory and for his influential Cours d'analyse.
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Quintino Sella
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- mathematicianuniversity teachereconomistmineralogistmountaineer
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Quintino Sella was an Italian politician, economist and mountaineer.
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Matthieu Orphelin
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- politician
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Matthieu Orphelin is a French politician who served as a member of the French National Assembly from 2017 to 2022, representing Maine-et-Loire.
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Émile Nouguier
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1862-1865
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- engineerarchitectcivil engineer
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Émile Nouguier was a French civil engineer and architect. He is famous for co-designing the Eiffel Tower, built 1887–1889 for the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris, France, the Garabit viaduct, the highest in the world at the time, near Ruynes-en-Margeride, Cantal, France, and the Faidherbe Bridge over the Sénégal River in Senegal.
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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1818-1820
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- university teacherphysicistengineer
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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics.
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Lionel Stoléru
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- conductorengineereconomistpolitician
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Lionel Guy Stoléru was a French politician and civil servant. He was also an orchestra founder and conductor.
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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play
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- engineereconomistpoliticiansociologist
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Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play was a French engineer, sociologist and economist.
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Patrick Kron
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- business executiveengineerinternational forum participant
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Patrick Kron was the chairman and chief executive (Président-directeur général) of the French engineering conglomerate Alstom. Alstom is most well known for its TGV trains, and is headquartered at Saint-Ouen.
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Paul Pierre Lévy
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1907-1910
- Occupations
- university teacherengineermathematician
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Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him.
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Charles de Freycinet
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- politicianengineerofficial
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Charles Louis de Saulces de Freycinet was a French statesman who served four times as Prime Minister during the Third Republic. He also served an important term as Minister of War (1888–1893). He belonged to the Moderate Republican faction.
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Jean-Louis Bianco
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- politician
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Jean-Louis Bianco is a French politician and civil servant who served as Minister of Social Affairs and Integration from 1991 to 1992 and Minister of Equipment, Transport and Housing from 1992 to 1993 under President François Mitterrand. A member of the Socialist Party (PS), he was later elected to the National Assembly in 1997, where he represented the 1st constituency of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence for three terms. Bianco also held a number of local elective mandates at the municipal, departmental and regional level from 1992 to 2012.
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Joseph Louis François Bertrand
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- economistprofessormathematician
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Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
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Gabriel Lamé
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- physicistuniversity teacherprofessormathematicianmining engineer
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Gabriel Lamé was a French mathematician who contributed to the theory of partial differential equations by the use of curvilinear coordinates, and the mathematical theory of elasticity (for which linear elasticity and finite strain theory elaborate the mathematical abstractions).
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Jean-Pierre Clamadieu
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- engineerinternational forum participantmining engineerentrepreneur
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Jean-Pierre Clamadieu is a French businessman.
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Jacques Aschenbroich
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- entrepreneur
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Jacques André Aschenbroich is the Chairman of French telecoms company Orange. He is the former CEO of Valeo and held the position between 2016 and 2022.
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Henri Victor Regnault
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- university teacherprofessorchemistphysicistphotographer
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Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s. He never used his first given name, and was known throughout his lifetime as Victor Regnault.
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Louis Armand
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- university teacherofficialinventorFrench Resistance fightermining engineer
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Louis François Armand was a French engineer and senior civil servant who managed several public companies, as well as had a significant role in World War II as an officer in the Resistance. He became the first president of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) as chair of the Armand Commission from 1958 to 1959 before he was elected to the Académie Française in 1963.
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Déodat Gratet de Dolomieu
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- geologistmineralogistvolcanologist
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Dieudonné Sylvain Guy Tancrède de Gratet de Dolomieu usually known as Déodat de Dolomieu was a French geologist. The mineral and the rock dolomite and the largest summital crater on the Piton de la Fournaise volcano were named after him.
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Michel Chevalier
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- politicianeconomistengineerprofessorjournalist
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Michel Chevalier was a French engineer, statesman, economist and free market liberal.
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Thierry de Montbrial
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1966-1969
- Occupations
- geopolitical analystinternational forum participanteconomist
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Thierry de Montbrial is the executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is also the founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC), which he created in 2008. He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992. He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies.
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Jacques de Morgan
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- anthropologistengineergeologistarchaeologistbiologist
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Jean-Jacques de Morgan was a French mining engineer, geologist, and archaeologist. He was the director of antiquities in Egypt during the 19th century, and excavated in Memphis and Dashur, providing many drawings of many Egyptian pyramids. He also worked at Stonehenge, and Persepolis, and many other sites.
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Jean-Jacques Favier
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- physicistastronautengineer
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Jean-Jacques Favier was a German-born French engineer and a CNES astronaut who flew aboard the STS-78 NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1996. Favier was due to fly aboard the doomed Columbia mission in 2003 (STS-107), but later opted out of the mission. Jean-Jacques Favier was deputy director for space technology and deputy director for advanced concepts and strategy at CNES, director of the Solidification Laboratory at the French Atomic Energy Commission and research program director at the International Space University.
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Denis Ranque
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- entrepreneurbusinesspersonengineer
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Denis Ranque is a French engineer and businessman who served as CEO and chairman of Thales Group from 1998 until 2009.
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Paul Héroult
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1882
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- chemistphysicistinventor
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Paul Héroult (10 April 1863 – 9 May 1914) was a French scientist. He was one of the inventors of the Hall-Héroult process for smelting aluminium, and developed the first successful commercial electric arc furnace. He lived in Thury-Harcourt, Normandy.
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Hassoumi Massoudou
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- politician
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Hassoumi Massaoudou is a Nigerien politician who served as minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger from 2021 to 2023. He served as minister of Finance from October 2016 to January 2019. A leading member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), he was minister of Communication, Culture, Youth and Sports from 1993 to 1994, president of the PNDS Parliamentary Group from 1999 to 2004, director of the Cabinet of the President from 2011 to 2013, minister of the Interior from 2013 to 2016, and minister of National Defense in 2016.
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Alexandre Brongniart
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- botanistchemistpaleontologistmining engineergeologist
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Alexandre Brongniart was a French chemist, mineralogist, geologist, paleontologist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Observing fossil content as well as lithology in sequences, he classified Tertiary formations and was responsible for defining 19th century geological studies as a subject of science by assembling observations and classifications.
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Pierre-Émile Martin
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- industrialistengineer
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Pierre-Émile Martin was a French industrial engineer. He applied the principle of recovery of the hot gas in an open hearth furnace, a process invented by Carl Wilhelm Siemens.
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Francis Mer
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- businesspersonengineerpoliticianentrepreneur
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Francis Mer was a French businessman, industrialist and politician. An alumnus of the École polytechnique (class of 1959), and of the École des Mines de Paris, he was a member of the Corps des mines. Mer was hired in 1970 by the Saint-Gobain group. In 1982, he became chairman of the board of Pont-à-Mousson SA. In the 1980s, he joined the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.
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Jean-Louis Masson
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- politicianengineer
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Jean-Louis Masson is a French politician. An Independent, he has served as a Senator for Moselle since 2001. He previously served as a member of the National Assembly for Moselle from 1978 to 1997. Masson is a former member of the Rally for the Republic (RPR) and Union for a Popular Movement (UMP).
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Jean-Louis Beffa
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- engineerbusinessperson
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Jean-Louis Beffa is a French businessman. He was Chairman and CEO of Saint-Gobain from 1986 to 2007, Chairman until 2010 and is Honorary Chairman of the board of Saint-Gobain. He is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation and was on the boards of BNP Paribas, GDF Suez, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert, Siemens AG, Le Monde S.A., Société Editrice du Monde S.A., and Le Monde Partenaires SAS.
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Luc Oursel
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- businesspersoncivil engineerinternational forum participant
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Luc Marie Bernard Oursel,, was the former chairman of the board of the nuclear company Areva and member of its executive committee. He resigned on 20 October 2014 for health reasons. Until June 2013, he was the President of the French Nuclear Energy Corporation. In 2010, he was made a Knight Commander of the French Legion of Honour
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Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac was a Swiss chemist whose work with atomic weights suggested the possibility of isotopes and the packing fraction of nuclei. His study of the rare earth elements led to his discovery of ytterbium in 1878 and co-discovery of gadolinium in 1880.
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Auguste Laurent
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- chemist
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Auguste Laurent was a French chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid.
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Pierre Berthier
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- geologistengineer
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Pierre Berthier was a French geologist and mining engineer.
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Gérard Berry
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- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1970-1972
- Occupations
- engineercomputer scientist
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Gérard Philippe Berry is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences), French Academy of Technologies (Académie des technologies), and Academia Europaea. He was the Chief Scientist Officer of Esterel Technologies from 2000 to 2009. He held the 2007-2008 yearly Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. He was Director of Research at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and held the 2009-2010 yearly Informatics and Digital Sciences chair at the Collège de France. Berry's work, which spans over more than 30 years, brought important contributions to three main fields:
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Georges Painvin
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- industrialistengineermathematiciancryptographer
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Georges Jean Painvin was a French geologist and industrialist, best known as the cryptanalyst who broke the ADFGX/ADFGVX cipher used by the Germans during the First World War.
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Pierre Laffitte
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- geophysicistpolitician
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Pierre Laffitte was a French politician and scientist. He was the founder of Sophia Antipolis and represented Alpes-Maritimes in the Senate of France from 1985 to 2008 as a member of the Radical Party (PR).
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Étienne Hirsch
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- politicianengineercivil engineer
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Étienne Hirsch was a French civil engineer and a member of the French Resistance during World War II. He served as President of the Commission of the European Atomic Energy Community between 1959 and 1962 (see Hirsch Commission).
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Louis Paul Cailletet
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1854-1855
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- ironmasterindustrialistphysicistediting staffchemist
- Biography
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Louis-Paul Cailletet was a French physicist and inventor.
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Louis Émile Javal
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- writerpoliticianEsperantistophthalmologist
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Louis Émile Javal was a French ophthalmologist born in Paris. Javal is remembered for his studies of physiological optics and his work involving a disorder known as strabismus.
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay
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- astronomerengineermathematician
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Charles-Eugène Delaunay was a French astronomer and mathematician. His lunar motion studies were important in advancing both the theory of planetary motion and mathematics.
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Jacques Biot
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- officialengineerlobbyistentrepreneur
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Jacques Biot is a French engineer, businessman, lobbyist for pharmaceutical companies and academic administrator. He serves as the president of the École Polytechnique between 2013 and 2018.
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Marie Alfred Cornu
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- pedagoguephysicist
- Biography
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Marie Alfred Cornu was a French physicist. The French generally refer to him as Alfred Cornu.
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Alain Le Roy
- Occupations
- diplomat
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Alain Le Roy is a French diplomat who served as Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) between 1 March 2015 and 31 August 2016. In this capacity, he was in charge of around 3,400 staff and around 140 delegations in non-EU countries. On 16 June 2016 he announced he would be resigning effective 1 September 2016, being replaced by Helga Schmid, who has been political director of the EEAS and as such, been involved in the Iran nuclear negotiations.
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Bertrand Collomb
- Occupations
- international forum participantbusinessperson
- Biography
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Bertrand P. Collomb was a French business executive.
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Louis Etienne François Héricart de Thury
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1795
- Occupations
- entomologistpolitician
- Biography
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Louis-Étienne François Héricart-Ferrand, vicomte de Thury, was a French politician and man of science. He was a mining engineer who produced more than 350 scholarly articles; was a member of numerous societies and professional associations. He was heir to an estate of great horticultural richness with the equivalent of a private arboretum. He was a founding member of the National Horticultural Society of France.
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Marcel Deprez
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- physicistengineerelectrical engineerelectrician
- Biography
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Marcel Deprez was a French electrical engineer. He was born in Aillant-sur-Milleron. He died in Vincennes.
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Jean-Michel Coron
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- university teachermathematician
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Coron is a French mathematician. He first studied at École Polytechnique, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by Haïm Brezis. Since 1992, he has studied the control theory of partial differential equations, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern partial differential equations related to fluid dynamics, with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena, and part of them found applications to control channels.
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Jean Baptiste Armand Louis Léonée Elie de Beaumont
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1819-1820
- Occupations
- politicianprofessorentomologistmining engineergeologist
- Biography
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Jean-Baptiste Armand Louis Léonce Élie de Beaumont was a French geologist.
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Jacques Friedel
- Occupations
- physicistengineerprofessor
- Biography
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Jacques Friedel ForMemRS was a French physicist and material scientist.
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François Loos
- Occupations
- politicianengineerinternational forum participant
- Biography
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François Loos was appointed Minister Delegate for Industry on 2 June 2005, following a term as Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade (June 2002 to May 2005). He was Minister Delegate for Higher Education & Research in the first Raffarin government.
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Georges Matheron
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- geologistmathematician
- Biography
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Georges François Paul Marie Matheron was a French mathematician and civil engineer of mines, known as the founder of geostatistics and a co-founder (together with Jean Serra) of mathematical morphology. In 1968, he created the Centre de Géostatistique et de Morphologie Mathématique at the Paris School of Mines in Fontainebleau. He is known for his contributions on Kriging and mathematical morphology. His seminal work is posted for study and review to the Online Library of the Centre de Géostatistique, Fontainebleau, France.
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Jean-Michel Cazes
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1959
- Occupations
- winemakerwinegrower
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Cazes was a French winemaker and insurance executive. He managed the wine holdings of AXA Millésimes until 2000, the family insurance agency, and the Cazes family estates until 2006. He was the son of André Cazes and grandson of Jean-Charles Cazes who acquired the family's initial holdings.
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Louis Le Chatelier
- Occupations
- chemistengineer
- Biography
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Louis Le Chatelier was a French chemist and industrialist who developed a method for producing aluminium from bauxite in 1855. His son was chemist Henry Louis Le Chatelier. His name is inscribed on the Eiffel tower.
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Pierre Pringuet
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- business executivebusinesspersonofficial
- Biography
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Pierre Pringuet is a French businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Pernod-Ricard from 2008 to 2015. He serves as its vice president, as well as the president of the French Association of Private Enterprises.
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François de Wendel
- Occupations
- ironmasterpolitician
- Biography
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François de Wendel was a French industrialist and politician. He inherited the leadership of a major steel manufacturer in Lorraine at a time when it was part of Germany, and in Meurthe-et-Moselle in France to the west. He entered national politics just before World War I (1914–18), holding office first as a deputy and then as a senator until after the defeat of France in World War II (1939–45). His position as a deputy and also as head of the largest industrial enterprise in France inevitably led to accusations that he was manipulating policy in favor of his business empire.
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Jean-Michel Bismut
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Jean-Michel Bismut is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981. His mathematical career covers two apparently different branches of mathematics: probability theory and differential geometry. Ideas from probability play an important role in his works on geometry.
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Jean Reynaud
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- engineerpoliticianphilosophergeologist
- Biography
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Jean Ernest Reynaud was a French mining engineer and socialist philosopher.
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Auguste Rateau
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- inventorengineerpoliticianteacher
- Biography
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Auguste Rateau was an engineer and industrialist born in Royan, France, specializing in turbines.
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Georges Friedel
- Occupations
- crystallographermineralogist
- Biography
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Georges Friedel was a French mineralogist and crystallographer.
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Marcel Bertrand
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1869-1873
- Occupations
- geologistprofessormining engineer
- Biography
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Marcel Alexandre Bertrand was a French geologist born in Paris. He was the son of mathematician Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900), and son-in-law to physicist Éleuthère Mascart (1837-1908).
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Laurence Danon
- Occupations
- engineerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Laurence Danon Arnaud is a French businesswoman. She currently serves as chairman of her family office Primerose SAS.
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Gérard Worms
- Occupations
- bankerbusinessperson
- Biography
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Gérard Worms was a French banker and businessman. He served as the Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe and Senior Advisor of Rothschild & Cie Banque.
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Jacques Lesourne
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Jacques Lesourne was a French economist who was the director of the daily newspaper Le Monde from 1991 to 1994.
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Louis Cordier
- Occupations
- mineralogistpoliticianmining engineergeologist
- Biography
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Pierre Louis Antoine Cordier was a French geologist and mineralogist, and a founder of the French Geological Society. He was professor of geology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1819 to 1861, and was responsible for the development of the geological gallery in the museum.
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Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1836-1838
- Occupations
- professorvolcanologistgeologistmeteorologist
- Biography
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Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville was a geologist and meteorologist.
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Albert de Lapparent
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1860
- Occupations
- mineralogistmining engineergeologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Albert Auguste Cochon de Lapparent was a French geologist.
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Pierre-Marie Termier
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1880-1883
- Occupations
- poetmining engineergeologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Pierre-Marie Termier was a French geologist.
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Gabriel Auguste Daubrée
- Occupations
- university teacherprofessorcartographermineralogistwriter
- Biography
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Gabriel Auguste Daubrée MIF FRS FRSE was a French geologist, best known for applying experimental methods to structural geology. He served as the director of the École des Mines as well as the president of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Bernard Gregory
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicist
- Biography
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Bernard Gregory was a prominent French physicist and director-general of CERN.
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Auguste Michel-Lévy
- Occupations
- mineralogistmining engineergeologistprofessor
- Biography
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Auguste Michel-Lévy was a French geologist. He was born in Paris.
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Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen
- Occupations
- chemist
- Biography
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Jacques-Joseph Ébelmen was a French chemist. He was the son of Claude Louis Ébelmen, a forest surveyor, and Jeanne Claude Grenier. He attended classes in grammar and literature at the Language School at Baume. Thereafter he grew interested in the Sciences and attended the elementary mathematics classes in Paris at Collège Royal Henry-Le-Grand, and applied mathematics at the Lycée de Besançon. He then enrolled at the École Polytechnique in 1831.
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Yves Quéré
- Occupations
- researcherphysicist
- Biography
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Yves Quéré is a French physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences.
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Anne Bouverot
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- business executiveengineer
- Biography
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Anne Bouverot is a French business executive and a philanthropist.
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Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy
- Occupations
- geologistprofessormineralogist
- Biography
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Ours-Pierre-Armand Petit-Dufrénoy was a French geologist and mineralogist.
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Charles Combes
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1820
- Occupations
- university teachermining engineer
- Biography
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Charles Pierre Mathieu Combes was a French engineer. He was Inspector-General of Mines and the Director of the School of Mines in Paris. His name is on the Eiffel Tower.
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Albert Auguste Perdonnet
- Occupations
- engineerrailway engineer
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Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents.
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François Bourdoncle
- Occupations
- computer scientistbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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François Bourdoncle is founder and Chief Strategist of the search engine company Exalead. He is currently president of FB&Cie.
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Marie-Adolphe Carnot
- Enrolled in the National Graduate School of Engineering, Paris
- Studied in 1858-1860
- Occupations
- politicianmining engineergeologistchemist
- Biography
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Marie Adolphe Carnot was a French chemist, mining engineer and politician. He came from a distinguished family: his father, Hippolyte Carnot, and brother, Marie François Sadi Carnot, were politicians, the latter becoming President of the third French Republic.
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Aimé Lepercq
- Occupations
- bankerpolitician
- Biography
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Aimé Marie Antoine Lepercq was a French soldier, industrialist and political figure.
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Jean-Martial Bineau
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jean-Martial Bineau was a French engineer and politician who promoted the early development of railways in France. He was Minister of Public Works during the French Second Republic, and served as Minister of Finance from 1852 to 1855 under the Emperor Napoleon III. He pushed through measures to increase revenues and contain expenditures in the face of opposition from the legislature.
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Jules Thurmann
- Occupations
- mathematicianuniversity teachergeologistbotanist
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Jules Thurmann was an Alsatian French-Swiss geologist and botanist.
