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Leconte Prize
The Leconte Prize ( French: ') is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology. Scientists and mathematicians of all nationalities are eligible for the award. The value of the award in the late 19th and early 20th century was F50,000 (at the time equivalent to £2,000, or US$10,000), about five times as much as the annual salary of the average professor in France. The award was F22,000 in 1984, F20,000 in 2001, €3,000 in 2008, €2,500 in 2010, €2,000 in 2014, and €1,500 in 2019. The Leconte Prize was established with a donation from a businessman, Victor Eugene Leconte, to the academy. The donation specified that a F50,000 prize would be awarded every three years for outstanding past work, and that up to 1/8th of the interest earned by the fund each year co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Language
French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French ( Francien) largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the ( Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French. French is an official language in 29 countries across multiple continents, most of which are members of the ''Organisation internationale de la Francophonie'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almroth Wright
Sir Almroth Edward Wright (10 August 1861 – 30 April 1947) was a British bacteriologist and immunologist. He is notable for developing a system of anti-typhoid fever inoculation, recognizing early on that antibiotics would create resistant bacteria, and being a strong advocate for preventive medicine. Biography Wright was born at Middleton Tyas, near Richmond, North Yorkshire into a family of mixed Anglo-Irish and Swedish descent.Michael Worboys, 'Wright, Sir Almroth Edward (1861–1947)’, He was the son of Reverend Charles Henry Hamilton Wright, deacon of Middleton Tyas, who later served in Belfast, Dublin, and Liverpool and managed the Protestant Reformation Society. His mother, Ebba Almroth, was the daughter of , Governor of the Swedish Royal Mint in Stockholm.Sir Charles Hagberg Wright (obituary)'. The Times, 7 March 1940. His younger brother Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright became the librarian of the London Library. In 1882, he graduated from Trinity College ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Biology Awards
This list of biology awards is an index to articles about notable awards for biology. It includes a general list and lists of ecology, genetics and neuroscience awards. It excludes awards for biochemistry, biomedical science, medicine, ornithology and paleontology, which are covered by separate lists. General awards International Americas Asia Europe Oceania Ecology Genetics Genetics is a branch of biology concerned with the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in organisms.Hartl D, Jones E (2005) Neuroscience See also * Competitions and prizes in biotechnology * Lists of awards * Lists of science and technology awards * List of biochemistry awards * List of biomedical science awards * List of awards in bioinformatics and computational biology * List of fellows of the AACR Academy * List of medicine awards * List of ornithology awards * List of paleontology awards References {{Science and technology awards Lists of biology lists b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoé Chatzidakis
Zoé Maria Chatzidakis is a mathematician who works as a director of research at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, France. Her research concerns model theory and difference algebra. She was invited to give the Tarski Lectures in 2020, though the lectures were postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Education and employment Chatzidakis earned her Ph.D. in 1984 from Yale University, under the supervision of Angus Macintyre, with a dissertation on the model theory of profinite groups. She is Senior researcher and team director in Algebra and Geometry in the Département de mathématiques et applications de l'École Normale Supérieure. Honors and awards She was the 2013 winner of the Leconte Prize, and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xavier Buff
Xavier Buff (born 16 December 1971) is a French mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems. Buff received in 1996 his Ph.D. (promotion) from the University of Paris-Sud under Adrien Douady with thesis ''Points fixe de renormalisation''. As a postdoc he was in the academic year 1997–1998 the H. C. Wang Assistant Professor at Cornell University. At the Paul Sabatier University (Université Toulouse III) he became in 1998 a ''maître de conférences'', achieved in 2006 his habilitation with habilitation thesis ''Disques de Siegel et ensembles de Julia d'aire strictement positive'', and became in 2008 a full professor. In 2010 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad and gave a talk ''Quadratic Julia Sets with Positive Area'' based on joint work with Arnaud Chéritat. In 2006 Buff and Chéritat received the ''Prix Leconte'' of the French Academy of Sciences for their collaborative work on Julia sets with positive mass; they prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaud Cheritat
Arnaud may refer to: People * Arnaud (given name) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the German given name Arnold * Arnaud (surname) or Arnauld (formerly Arnoul), the French form of the name Arnold * Arnauld family, a noble French family prominent in the 17th century, associated with Jansenism Places * Arnaud, Nippes, a commune in Haiti * Arnaud River (formerly known as the Payne River), a river in Nunavik, Quebec, Canada Other uses * Arnaud's, a well known restaurant in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. * Saint Arnaud (other) See also * Arnie (other) Arnie is a masculine given name or nickname. It may also refer to: * ''Arnie'' (video game), a 1992 game for the Commodore 64 * '' Arnie II'', a 1993 computer game, sequel to ''Arnie'' * ''Arnie'' (TV series), a 1970s sitcom * "Arnie", a song f ... * Arnold (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippe Biane
Philippe Biane (born 1962) is a French mathematician known for his contributions in probability theory and group representation. He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1995, together with Yuval Peres Yuval Peres ( he, יובל פרס; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausd .... References External links Website at Université Paris-Est 1962 births Living people 20th-century French mathematicians Probability theorists {{France-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luc Tartar
Luc C. Tartar is a French-American mathematician currently the University Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. References Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Carnegie Mellon University faculty 20th-century American mathematicians French mathematicians University of Paris alumni 21st-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Duflo
Michel Duflo (born 15 August 1943) is a French mathematician who works in the representation theory of Lie groups. Life From 1962, Duflo studied at the École normale supérieure and received a doctorate under the supervision of Jacques Dixmier. Currently, he is an emeritus professor at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot) at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and at the École normale supérieure. Duflo has worked on the orbit method of Alexander Kirillov. He introduced the Duflo isomorphism, an isomorphism between the center of the enveloping algebra of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra and the invariants of its symmetric algebra. In 1974 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Vancouver (''Inversion formula and invariant differential operators on solvable Lie groups''). Duflo received the Prix Le Conte of the French Academy of Sciences; in 1986 he became a corresponding member of the Academy. His students include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Berger
Marcel Berger (14 April 1927 – 15 October 2016) was a French mathematician, doyen of French differential geometry, and a former director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS), France. Formerly residing in Le Castera in Lasseube, Berger was instrumental in Mikhail Gromov's accepting positions both at the University of Paris and at the IHÉS. Awards and honors *1956 Prix Peccot, Collège de France *1962 Prix Maurice Audin *1969 Prix Carrière, Académie des Sciences *1978 Prix Leconte, Académie des Sciences *1979 Prix Gaston Julia *1979–1980 President of the French Mathematical Society. *1991 Lester R. Ford Award Selected publications * Berger, M.Geometry revealed Springer, 2010. * Berger, M.: What is... a Systole? Notices of the AMS 55 (2008), no. 3, 374–376online text* * * *Berger, Marcel; Gauduchon, Paul; Mazet, Edmond: Le spectre d'une variété riemannienne. (French) Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol. 194 Springer-Verlag, Berlin-New York 1971. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marguerite Perey
Marguerite Catherine Perey (19 October 1909 – 13 May 1975) was a French physicist and a student of Marie Curie. In 1939, Perey discovered the element francium by purifying samples of lanthanum that contained actinium. In 1962, she was the first woman to be elected to the French Académie des Sciences, an honor denied to her mentor Curie. Perey died of cancer in 1975. Early life Perey was born in 1909 in Villemomble, France, just outside Paris where the Curie's Radium Institute was located. Although she hoped to study medicine, the death of her father left the family in financial difficulties. Perey earned a chemistry diploma from Paris' Technical School of Women's Education in 1929; while not a "degree", it did qualify her to work as a chemistry technician. In 1929 at the age of 19, Perey interviewed for a role as a personal assistant (technician) to Marie Curie at Curie's Radium Institute in Paris, France, and was hired. Marie Curie took on a mentoring role to Perey, taking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Bull
Lucien Bull (January 5, 1876 – August 25, 1972) was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion." Early life Born in Dublin, Ireland to British father, Cornelius Bull, and French mother, Gabrielle Joune, Bull lived his younger years in Dublin where he attended school and lived at home with his parents. Later in 1894, Bull moved to France to visit his aunts. After several months, Bull eventually settled in the area and became an assistant to Étienne-Jules Marey in 1895. Marey was a physiologist interested in capturing human movement for later study. At the time, Marey was working on the cinematographic, which was a camera that was shaped like a rifle and took pictures of moving objects from a rotating plate. This eventually became known as the “gun camera”, a predecessor to the movie picture camera, which Bull later devised a faster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
