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Famous Brainiacs from France
Boisselier, Brigitte
Scientific Director of Clonaid, a human cloning service
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
(
Saint-André de Cubzac
)
Underwater explorer and filmmaker
Curie, Pierre
(
Paris
)
The scientist husband of Marie Curie
de Branges, Louis
(
Paris
)
The deep thinker who proved the Bieberbach Conjecture in 1984
Descartes, René
(
La Haye
)
The philosopher who said "I think, therefore I am"
Foucault, Michel
(
Poitiers
)
The French philosopher who wrote
This is Not a Pipe
Lavoisier, Antoine
(
Paris
)
French chemist who proved the law of conservation of mass
Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph
(
Saint-Lô
)
The mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune
Pascal, Blaise
(
Clermont-Ferrand
)
17th century mathematical genius
Pasteur, Louis
(
Dole
)
(
Jura
)
Renowned inventor of pasteurization
Piketty, Thomas
(
Clichy
)
The author of
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Sarte, Jean-Paul
(
Paris
)
The existentialist author of
Being and Nothingness
Smithson, James
(
Paris
)
The man whose money founded the Smithsonian Institution
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique
(
Neuilly-sur-Seine
)
The IMF director accused of sexual assault in 2011
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