EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Location:
Paris, France

Founding Date:
1530

Official Website:
http://www.college-de-france.fr/

STUDENTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Claude Bernard	Doctor	12-Jul-1813	10-Feb-1878	French physiologist
Maurice de Broglie	Physicist	27-Apr-1875	14-Jul-1960	X-ray spectroscopy
Wolf Lepenies	Sociologist	11-Jan-1941		Melancholy and Society
Charles Richet	Scientist	26-Aug-1850	4-Dec-1935	Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm
Paul Sabatier	Chemist	5-Nov-1854	14-Aug-1941	Heterogeneous catalysis
Ida M. Tarbell	Journalist	5-Nov-1857	6-Jan-1944	History of the Standard Oil Company
Gabriel Tarde	Sociologist	12-Mar-1843	13-May-1904	Group mind, Theory of Imitation
Alfred Werner	Chemist	12-Dec-1866	15-Nov-1919	Coordination theory of chemistry
Vladimir Zworykin	Inventor	30-Jul-1889	29-Jul-1982	Patented color televison

TEACHERS AND PROFESSORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Raymond Aron	Philosopher	14-Mar-1905	17-Oct-1983	Political philosopher, social theorist
Antoine-Jérôme Balard	Chemist	30-Sep-1802	30-Mar-1876	Discovered bromine
Henri Bergson	Philosopher	18-Oct-1859	4-Jan-1941	L'Évolution Créatrice
Claude Bernard	Doctor	12-Jul-1813	10-Feb-1878	French physiologist
Marcellin Berthelot	Chemist	27-Oct-1827	18-Mar-1907	Chimie organique fondée sur la synthèse
Jean-Baptiste Biot	Physicist	21-Apr-1774	3-Feb-1862	Biot-Savart Law
Yves Bonnefoy	Poet	24-Jun-1923	1-Jul-2016	Du Mouvement et de l'immobilité de Douve
Pierre Bourdieu	Anthropologist	1-Aug-1930	23-Jan-2002	Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
Fernand Braudel	Historian	24-Aug-1902	27-Nov-1985	La méditerranée
Augustin-Louis Cauchy	Mathematician	21-Aug-1789	23-May-1857	Infinitesimals, theory of substitution groups
Jean-François Champollion	Historian	23-Dec-1790	4-Mar-1832	Deciphered the Rosetta Stone
Georges Charpak	Physicist	1-Aug-1924	29-Sep-2010	Subatomic particle detectors
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji	Physicist	1-Apr-1933		Trapped atoms with laser light
Georges Cuvier	Zoologist	23-Aug-1769	13-May-1832	Comparative anatomist, paleontologist
Jean Dausset	Scientist	19-Oct-1916	6-Jun-2009	Recognition of HLA antigens
Michel Foucault	Philosopher	15-Oct-1926	26-Jun-1984	History of Sexuality
Edmond Frémy	Chemist	28-Feb-1814	3-Feb-1894	Discovered hydrogen fluoride
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes	Physicist	24-Oct-1932	18-May-2007	Molecular structure of polymers
Roger Guillemin	Scientist	11-Jan-1924		Hypothalamic hormones (brain peptides)
Ian Hacking	Philosopher	18-Feb-1936		The Taming of Chance
Jacques-Salomon Hadamard	Mathematician	8-Dec-1865	17-Oct-1963	Prime number theorem
François Jacob	Scientist	17-Jun-1920	19-Apr-2013	Operon theory of genetic control
Frédéric Joliot	Physicist	19-Mar-1900	14-Aug-1958	Artificial radioactivity
René Laënnec	Doctor	17-Feb-1781	13-Aug-1826	Stethoscope
Paul Langevin	Physicist	23-Jan-1872	19-Dec-1946	Studied piezoelectricity
Jean-Marie Lehn	Chemist	30-Sep-1939		Synthesis of molecules
Claude Lévi-Strauss	Anthropologist	28-Nov-1908	1-Nov-2009	French anthropologist
Marcel Mauss	Sociologist	10-May-1872	10-Feb-1950	The Gift
Jacques Monod	Scientist	9-Feb-1910	31-May-1976	Operon theory of genetic control
Jean Passerat	Poet	18-Oct-1534	14-Sep-1602	Satyre ménippée
Petrus Ramus	Scholar	1515	26-Aug-1572	Scholarum mathematicarum
Henri-Victor Regnault	Chemist	21-Jul-1810	19-Jan-1878	Properties of gases
Charles Richet	Scientist	26-Aug-1850	4-Dec-1935	Studied anaphylaxis and ectoplasm
Gilles Personne de Roberval	Mathematician	8-Aug-1602	27-Oct-1675	Geometry of curves
Louis-Jacques Thénard	Chemist	4-May-1777	21-Jun-1857	Traité de Chimie élémentaire
Nicolas-Louis Vauquelin	Chemist	16-May-1763	14-Nov-1829	Discovered beryllium and chromium
Gabriele Veneziano	Physicist	20-Feb-1942		Father of string theory

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