Blaise Pascal Chair
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The Blaise Pascal Chair, (Chaires Internationales de Recherche Blaise Pascal
, France), established in 1996 by the Government of the Île-de-France Region for internationally acclaimed foreign scientists in all disciplines. A scientific committee annually selects the most outstanding candidates from all over the world. Since its inception a number of famous scientists were the
Blaise Pascal Chair laureates: Gérard Debreu
(UC Berkeley, 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics), Ahmed Zewail
(Caltech, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry),
Igor Mel'čuk
(University of Montreal, the world leading researcher in linguistics),
George Smoot
(LBL, 2006 Nobel Prize in experimental Astrophysics),
Robert Langlands
(UBC, 1996 Wolf Prize, one of the most
influential mathematicians of the 20th
century), outstanding theoretical physicists Gabriele Veneziano
(CERN/College de France),
Alexander Zamolodchikov
(Rutgers), and others.
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
, France), established in 1996 by the Government of the Île-de-France Region for internationally acclaimed foreign scientists in all disciplines. A scientific committee annually selects the most outstanding candidates from all over the world. Since its inception a number of famous scientists were the
Blaise Pascal Chair laureates: Gérard Debreu
Gerard Debreu
Gérard Debreu was a French economist and mathematician, who also came to have United States citizenship. Best known as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began work in 1962, he won the 1983 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.-Biography:His father was the...
(UC Berkeley, 1983 Nobel Prize in Economics), Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Zewail
Ahmed Hassan Zewail is an Egyptian-American scientist who won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. He is the Linus Pauling Chair Professor Chemistry and Professor of Physics at the California Institute of Technology.- Birth and education :Ahmed Zewail was born on...
(Caltech, 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry),
Igor Mel'čuk
Igor Mel'cuk
Igor Aleksandrovič Mel'čuk is a retired professor at the Department of linguistics and translation, Université de Montréal.He graduated from the Moscow State University's Philological department. Since 1956 he has worked for the Institute of the Science of Language in Moscow. Since 1974, he has...
(University of Montreal, the world leading researcher in linguistics),
George Smoot
George Smoot
George Fitzgerald Smoot III is an American astrophysicist, cosmologist, Nobel laureate, and $1 million TV quiz show prize winner . He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2006 for his work on COBE with John C...
(LBL, 2006 Nobel Prize in experimental Astrophysics),
Robert Langlands
Robert Langlands
Robert Phelan Langlands is a mathematician, best known as the founder of the Langlands program. He is an emeritus professor at the Institute for Advanced Study...
(UBC, 1996 Wolf Prize, one of the most
influential mathematicians of the 20th
century), outstanding theoretical physicists Gabriele Veneziano
Gabriele Veneziano
Gabriele Veneziano, born in Florence, Italy), is an Italian theoretical physicist and the founder of string theory. . Has spent most of his scientific activities at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland...
(CERN/College de France),
Alexander Zamolodchikov
Alexander Zamolodchikov
Alexander Borissowitsch Zamolodchikov is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to condensed matter physics and string theory.Born near Dubna,...
(Rutgers), and others.