Antoine MagnanAntoine Magnan (13 June 1881 – 5 March 1938) was a French zoologist and aeronautical engineer who studied the flight of insects and birds for possible lessons to apply to powered flight. He is best known for a remark in his 1934 book Le Vol des Insectes ("Insect Flight") that insect flight was impossible. Magnan was born in the central 7th arrondissement of Paris on 13 June 1881. He qualified as a doctor of medicine and of science, and received the diploma of superior studies in zoology.
Séminaire Nicolas BourbakiThe Séminaire Nicolas Bourbaki (Bourbaki Seminar) is a series of seminars (in fact public lectures with printed notes distributed) that has been held in Paris since 1948. It is one of the major institutions of contemporary mathematics, and a barometer of mathematical achievement, fashion, and reputation. It is named after Nicolas Bourbaki, a group of French and other mathematicians of variable membership. The Poincaré Seminars are a series of talks on physics inspired by the Bourbaki seminars on mathematics.
Fernand PelloutierFernand-Léonce-Émile Pelloutier (1 October 1867, in Paris – 13 March 1901, in Sèvres) was a French anarchist and syndicalist. He was the leader of the Bourses du Travail, a major French trade union, from 1895 until his death in 1901. He was succeeded by Yvetot. In 1902, the Bourses du Travail merged with the Confédération Générale du Travail. Pelloutier's theories were exceptionally important to the Revolutionary Syndicalism movement in Italy that appeared towards the end of the nineteenth century, and he is a source of major influence in this regard for Georges Sorel.
Jean-Marie Le RouxJean-Marie Le Roux (4 April 1863, Prat, Côtes-d'Armor – 1949, Rennes) was a French applied mathematician. Le Roux, the son of farmers, studied at the University of Rennes and, possibly, at the University of Bordeaux. He was an instructor at Guingamp from 1882 to 1889, a professor at the lycée at Brest from 1889 to 1896, and a professor at the lycée at Montpellier from 1896 to 1898. At the University of Rennes he became in 1898 a maître de conférences and in 1902 a professor of applied mathematics.
Robert CastelRobert Castel (1 August 1933 – 12 March 2013) was a French sociologist and researcher at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. Castel was born in Saint-Pierre-Quilbignon, now part of Brest. He initially studied philosophy in the late 1950s. In the late 1960s, he met Pierre Bourdieu and began working with him in sociology. His initial work dealt with psychology and psychiatry, establishing a critical sociology of these issues and linking this work to Michel Foucault, particularly to his 'genealogical approach'.
Barthélemy de LaffemasBartholomew Laffemas was an economist, born in Beausemblant, France in 1545. He is officially recorded as dying in Paris in 1612. However, it is rumoured that he actually died on September 23, 1611, after falling from his horse. He is known as the first person to write about underconsumption Coming from the gentry Protestant, poor, he worked and became a tailor. He left the Dauphiné and went to Navarre. There he met Henry of Navarre, the future Henry IV of France. Then, in 1576, he became a "silver merchant" for the king.
Charles PépinCharles Pépin is a French philosopher and novelist. He was born in Saint Cloud in 1973. He is the author of several bestsellers, such as Les Vertus de l’échec (Allary Éditions, 2016), La Confiance en soi (Allary Éditions, 2018) and La Planète des sages (Dargaud, 2011 et 2015). Une semaine de philosophie, Flammarion, 2006 / J'ai Lu, 2008 Les Philosophes sur le divan - Quand Freud rencontre Platon, Kant et Sartre, Flammarion, 2008 / J'ai Lu, 2010 Qu'est-ce qu'avoir du pouvoir ?, Desclée de Brouwer, 2010 Ceci
Meier EidelheitMeier "Maks" Eidelheit (6 July 1910 – March 1943) was a Polish mathematician belonging to the Lwów School of Mathematics who worked in Lwów and was murdered in the Holocaust. Meier Eidelheit left the Lwów Gymnasium in 1929 and then studied mathematics at the scientific faculty in Lwów, completing his study in 1933 with a thesis on the theory of summation. In 1938, with Stefan Banach as supervisor, he gained a doctorate from the Jan-Kazimierz-University of Lwów with a Dissertation über die Auflösbarkeit eines linearen Gleichungssystems mit unendlich vielen Unbekannten.
Maurice CollignonMaurice Jules Marie Collignon (9 June 1893, Saint-Malo – 21 October 1978, Moirans) was a French geologist and paleontologist, who is best known for his research of Cretaceous period ammonites from Madagascar. A career military officer, in 1914 he received his diploma from the military academy at Saint-Cyr, then spent the next 36 years associated with the French armed services. In the meantime he conducted geological and paleontological research; as early as 1928 he was providing descriptions of ammonite fauna from Madagascar.
André HaefligerAndré Haefliger (ˈandreː ˈhɛːfliɡər; 22 May 1929 - 7 March 2023) was a Swiss mathematician who worked primarily on topology. Haefliger went to school in Nyon and then attended his final years at Collège de Genève in Geneva. He studied mathematics at the University of Lausanne from 1948 to 1952. He worked for two years as a teaching assistant at École Polytechnique de l'Université de Lausanne. He then moved to University of Strasbourg, then he followed Charles Ehresmann in Paris, where he received his Ph.D.
