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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Jean Claude Eugene Peclet, Pierre Louis Dulong, Alexis Therese Petit, Jean Louis Marie Poiseuille, Catherine Brechignac, Helene Langevin-Joliot, Alfred Kastler, Hippolyte Fizeau, Nicolas Clement, Anatole Abragam, Francis Perrin, Louis Paul Cailletet, Auguste Bravais, Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, Paul Ulrich Villard, Hubert Curien, Emile Amagat, Joseph-Nicolas Delisle, Charles Fabry, Jacques-Arsene d'Arsonval, Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Andre Guinier, Ludwik Leibler, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier, Eid Hourany, Joel Scherk, Henri Pitot, Jean Cabannes, Alfred Perot, Pierre Bertholon de Saint-Lazare, Pierre Weiss, Claude Francois Lallemand, Thomas-Francois Dalibard, Emile Verdet, Thibault Damour, Roger Balian, Jean-Antoine Nollet, Stanislas Sorel, Albert Messiah, Jean Becquerel, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Kendal Nezan, Serge Haroche, Aurelien Barrau, Marcel Audiffren, Felix Savart, Robert Aymar, Eleuthere Mascart, Jean-Marie Duhamel, Audrey C. Delsanti, Jacques Rohault, Eugene Cremmer, Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, Louis Alfred Becquerel, Jean Morlet, Charles Haldat, Gerald Bastard, Jean Dalibard, Jules Jamin, Louis Rendu, Henri Benard, Arthur Morin, Constantin Senlecq, Daniel Kastler, Alex Grossmann, Jacques Curie, Henri Buisson, Bernard Picinbono, Alexis-Marie de Rochon. Excerpt: Catherine Brechignac (born 12 June 1946 in Paris) is a French physicist. She is an Officer of the Legion d'honneur, President of the International Council for Science and former president of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research"), Europe's largest scientific body. The Times says she has "a formidable reputation for determination, decisiveness and an aptitude for analysing and clarifying complex matters." As a president of the CNRS, she was responsible for 25,000 employees, 12,000 of whom are researchers, and a budget of 2.42...
