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Jacques Rousseau Award
Jacques Rousseau Award is an award given by the Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) to an individual or group who develop bridges between scientific disciplines. The award is named for Jacques Rousseau who was both a botanist and an anthropologist. He was a former secretary of the ACFAS. Laureates * 1981 : Louis Berlinguet *1982 : Gilles Paquet *1983 : Larkin Kerwin *1984 : Fernand Dumont *1985 : Gérard Bouchard *1986 : Fernand Roberge *1987 : Michael Florian *1988 : André Roch Lecours *1989 : Henri Dorion *1990 : Paul Brazeau *1991 : Jean-Charles Chebat *1992 : Ferdinand Bonn *1993 : Karen Messing *1994 : Régine Robin *1995 : Albert Bregman *1998 : Rodolphe De Koninck *1999 : Gilbert Laporte *2000 : Michel Laroche *2001 : Normand Séguin *2002 : Richard E Tremblay *2003 : Leon Glass * 2004 : No award * 2005 : No award * 2006 : No award * 2007 : Yves Gingras * 2008 : Pierre Hansen, researching mathematics and management, HEC Montréal * 2009 : Isabelle Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Francophone Pour Le Savoir
Acfas (previously: Association francophone pour le savoir from 2001 to May 2019 and before, Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences from 1923 to 2001 "ACFAS" or "Acfas") is the principal French-language learned society in Canada and, particularly, Quebec. The Acfas was founded in 1923 as the Association canadienne-française pour l'avancement des sciences (French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science). Its name was changed in 2001 to the Association francophone pour le savoir. Despite the name change, Acfas retained the acronym by which it has become known. Since May 2019, the Association has simply been called Acfas. The first president was Léo Pariseau. The current president (2021-23) is Jean-Pierre Perreault. The association played an important role in building Francophone Quebec's scholarly community, supporting the growth of an intellectual milieu outside the formal boundaries of the Catholic Church. Among its founders were prominent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |