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Was a French philosopher, sociologist, theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books a

Was a French philosopher, sociologist, theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society", and about Christianity and politics, such as Anarchy and Christianity (1991) - arguing that anarchism and Christianity are socially following the same goal.

Is a French-born venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer. He

Is a French-born venture capitalist, computer scientist, author, ufologist and former astronomer. He currently resides in San Francisco, California in the United States. (He should not be confused with the Canadian astronomer Jacques Paul Vallée. )

Was a French mathematician who was born in Paris, France and died in La Bérarde, Isère, France.He

Was a French mathematician who was born in Paris, France and died in La Bérarde, Isère, France.He worked in mathematical logic and class field theory. He introduced recursive functions. Herbrand's theorem refers to either of two completely different theor

Was a French Benedictine theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne. He entered the Benedictine Order at

Was a French Benedictine theologian and Doctor of the Sorbonne. He entered the Benedictine Order at the Royal Abbey of St. Denis, of which he became claustral prior. He was preceptor to the Cardinal de Guise and took a prominent part in the Catholic League and the disputes concerning the successor to Henry III of France, whose death he considered to be a just punishment.

Was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "

Was a French theologian and humanist. He was a precursor of the Protestant movement in France. The "d’Étaples" was not part of his name as such, but used to distinguish him from Jacques Lefèvre of Deventer, a less significant contemporary, a friend and correspondent of Erasmus. Both are also sometimes called by the German version of their name, Jacob/Jakob Faber. He himself had a sometimes tense relationship with Erasmus, whose work on Biblical translation and in theology closely paralleled his own.[2]

Was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.In 1892 he was called to the University of Chi

Was a German-born American physiologist and biologist.In 1892 he was called to the University of Chicago as assistant professor of physiology and experimental biology, becoming associate professor in 1895, and professor of physiology in 1899. In 1902 he was called to fill a similar chair at the University of California.In 1910 Loeb moved to the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York, where he headed a department created for him. He remained at Rockefeller (now Rockefeller University) until his death. Throughout most of these years Loeb spent his summers at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, performing experiments on various marine invertebrates. It was there that Jacques Loeb performed his most famous experiment

French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.

French biologist who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.

Was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An a

Was a French Catholic philosopher. Raised as a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1906. An author of more than 60 books, he helped to revive St. Thomas Aquinas for modern times and is a prominent drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Pope Paul VI presented his "Message to Men of Thought and of Science" at the close of Vatican II to Maritain, his long-time friend and mentor. Maritain's interest and works spanned many aspects of philosophy, including aesthetics, political theory, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, education, liturgy and ecclesiology.

Was a French mathematician. He came of a rich family which had renounced the Jewish for the Catholic

Was a French mathematician. He came of a rich family which had renounced the Jewish for the Catholic religion (family legend) . From the same family sprang the better known Frédéric Ozanam. Though he began the study of theology to please his father, he was more strongly attracted to mathematics, which he mastered without the aid of a teacher. At the age of fifteen he produced a mathematical treatise. Upon the death of his father, he gave up theology after four years of study and began, at Lyon, to give free private instruction in mathematics. Later, as the family property passed entirely to his elder brother, he was reluctantly driven to accept fees for his lessons.

An economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, from September 2

An economist and noted Quebec sovereignist who served as Premier of Quebec, Canada, from September 26, 1994 to January 29, 1996.The son of Gerard Parizeau and Germaine Biron, Jacques Parizeau attended Collège Stanislas, a Roman Catholic private school. He went on to graduate with a PhD from the London School of Economics in London, England. A believer in Keynes' theory of economic interventionism, he was one of the most important advisors to the provincial government during the 1960s, playing an important behind the scenes role in the Quiet Revolution.

Is an award-winning French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States.Pé

Is an award-winning French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States.Pépin was born in Bourg-en-Bresse near Lyon, and began cooking in his parents' restaurant, Le Pelican, at the age of 12. Jacques' father was a collaborator wi

Was a Dutch economist. He received his doctorate in economics in 1937 from the University of Amsterd

Was a Dutch economist. He received his doctorate in economics in 1937 from the University of Amsterdam. His first professional work was with Professor Jan Tinbergen. In 1937 he began his international service as an economist with the League of Nations. He was a member of the Netherlands delegations to the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference establishing the International Monetary Fund and to the Atlantic City conference that established the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). During this period, he served at the Dutch Embassy in Washington. From 1944 to 1946, he was an Assistant Financial Adviser, and then Economic Adviser to the Director General of UNRRA.

Was a French zoologist.Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the Astrolabe between 1837 and 1840, u

Was a French zoologist.Pucheran accompanied the expedition on the Astrolabe between 1837 and 1840, under the command of Jules Dumont d'Urville, with fellow-naturalists Jacques Bernard Hombron and Honoré Jacquinot.

Is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritu

Is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser.[1]

Was a French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, and a follower of Cartesianism.[1] Having gro

Was a French philosopher, physicist and mathematician, and a follower of Cartesianism.[1] Having grown up with the conventional scholastic philosophy of his day, he adopted and popularised the new Cartesian philosophy. His A System of Natural Philosophy (Traite de physique, Paris, 1671) became a standard textbook in many parts of Europe.[citation needed]

Is a French poet and mathematician. Jacques Roubaud is a professor of poetry at the European Graduat

Is a French poet and mathematician. Jacques Roubaud is a professor of poetry at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.[1], and he was a professor of Mathematics at University of Paris X. He is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Was a French economist and adviser to the French Government. He advised General de Gaulle after de G

Was a French economist and adviser to the French Government. He advised General de Gaulle after de Gaulle became French President in 1958. The 1958 Rueff Plan (also known as the Rueff-Pinay Plan) balanced the budget and secured the convertibility of the franc, which had been endangered by the strains of decolonization.

Was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, d

Was a French mathematician who made major contributions in number theory, complex function theory, differential geometry and partial differential equations.

Is a Belgian and French mathematician who received his doctorate in mathematics at the age of 20. He

Is a Belgian and French mathematician who received his doctorate in mathematics at the age of 20. He has written or cowritten many papers on a number of subjects, principally group theory.

Was a Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow Un

Was a Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow University under the direction of Anatoly Bogdanov (1834-1896), and afterwards moved to Germany, where he studied at the University of Jena with Ernst Haecke

A Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow Univer

A Russian herpetologist who was a native of the village Kriniz. He studied sciences at Moscow University under the direction of Anatoly Bogdanov (1834-1896), and afterwards moved to Germany, where he studied at the University of Jena with Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) and Carl Gegenbaur (1826-1903). In 1875 he obtained his doctorate with a thesis concerning the urogenital organs of reptiles.

Was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions

Was a French artist, atheist philosopher, editor and man of letters best known for his contributions to the Encyclopédie and for reworking Baron d'Holbach's and Diderot's manuscripts.

Was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian. Under the pseudonym Augus

Was a French Dominican Thomist theologian, controversialist and historian. Under the pseudonym Augustinus Leblanc, he wrote the standard history Historiae Congregationum de Auxiliis Divinae Gratiae of the Congregatio de Auxiliis, and the Dominican-Jesuit controversy on grace that led to its being set up. The work itself is partisan, awarding a Dominican victory based on an unpublished text[2], but well-documented[3]. It was attacked by the Jesuit Livinus de Meyer, writing as Theodorus Eleutherius, in 1705, in his Historiae controversiarum de divinae gratiae auxiliis.

Was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations an

Was a French mathematician who made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control, among other areas. He received the SIAM's John Von Neumann prize in 1986. Lions is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.[1]

A economist known for his advocacy of free trade. He is a University Professor at Columbia Universit

A economist known for his advocacy of free trade. He is a University Professor at Columbia University.Bhagwati has previously served as an external advisor to the Director General of the World Trade Organization in 2001, as a special policy advisor on globalization to the United Nations in 2000, and as an economics policy advisor to the Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade from 1991 to 1993. From 1968 until 1980, Bhagwati was an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] Bhagwati currently serves on the Academic Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch (Asia) and on the board of scholars of the Centre for Civil Society. He is a Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations.