Jean-Paul Poirier (born 13 May 1935) is a French physicist and member of the French Academy of Sciences.
J.-P. Poirier is an engineer from the École Centrale Paris (1959), Doctor of Science (1971). He was an engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) from 1963 to 1978 [1] and a physicist at the Institut de physique du globe in Paris from 1978 to 2003, where he created the Geomaterials Laboratory. [1]
He was elected member of the Academia Europaea in 1993. [2] He was correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in 1994, and was elected member in October 2002. [3] He has been elected to the Bureau des Longitudes [4] since 1996 and is a member of the National Academy of History of Ecuador.
He has worked on the physical properties of the deep Earth (lower mantle and core) and is interested in historical seismology.
Haroun Tazieff was a Franco-Belgian volcanologist and geologist. He was a famous cinematographer of volcanic eruptions and lava flows, and the author of several books on volcanoes. He was also a government adviser and French cabinet minister. He also served in the Belgian resistance during World War II.
Jean-Bernard Raimond was a conservative French politician who served as Foreign Minister in the government of Jacques Chirac from 1986 to 1988, as French ambassador to a number of states from the 1970s to the 1990s, and as a deputy in the French National Assembly from 1993 to 2002.
Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose.
Roger Balian is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum field theory, quantum thermodynamics, and theory of measurement. Balian is a member of the French Académie des sciences. His important work includes the Balian-Low theorem. He teaches statistical physics at the École Polytechnique.
Chantal Chawaf is a French writer.
Elisa Brune was a Belgian writer and journalist. She held a doctorate in environmental science.
Vincent E. Courtillot is an emeritus French geophysicist, prominent among the researchers who are critical of the hypothesis that impact events are a primary cause of mass extinction of life forms on the Earth. He is known for his book "La Vie en catastrophes", translated into English as "Evolutionary catastrophes" (1999).
Edgard Edouard Pisani was a French statesman, philosopher, and writer.
Boris Cyrulnik is a French doctor, ethologist, neurologist, and psychiatrist.
Guy Pedroncini (1924–2006) was a French academic and military historian specialising in the First World War, and notable as the biographer of Philippe Pétain and for his work on the French army mutinies of 1917. He was born in Paris on 17 May 1924 and died on 11 July 2006, at the age of 82.
The prix Guillaume Apollinaire is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It was named in honour of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire. It annually recognizes a collection of poems for its originality and modernity.
Michel Cassé, is a French astrophysicist, writer and poet born in Fleurance in Gers in 1943. He works at CEA, and at French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and specializes nucleosynthesis and quantum mechanics.
Pierre Jean-Baptiste Rousseau was a French essayist, epistemologist, astronomer and journalist who authored numerous popular science essays and articles. He helped promote hard science to the general public and advocated the development of fundamental scientific research in a "post-war disenchantment".
Jean-Louis Dessalles is a French computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, professor à Télécom Paris (Paris). He is best known for his contributions to the Simplicity theory and for his original theory about a possible political origin of language.
Hervé Le Bras is a French demographer and historian.
André Miquel was a French Arabist and historian, specialist of Arabic literature and Arabic language.
Sébastien Balibar is a French physicist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences. On May 1, 2017, he signed with other scientists a text calling for a vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron during the second round of the 2017 presidential election, in order to "block the road to the worst", represented by Marine Le Pen.
Claude Jaupart is a French geophysicist and a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Alain Berthoz is a French engineer and neurophysiologist.
Alain Prochiantz is a neurobiology researcher and professor at the Collège de France, of which he became director from 2015 to 2019.