Françoise Balibar
Françoise Balibar | |
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| Born | Françoise Dumesnil 1941 (age 82–83) France |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Occupation(s) | Physicist, epistemologist |
| Spouse | Étienne Balibar |
| Children | Jeanne Balibar |
Françoise Balibar (born Françoise Dumesnil; 1941) is a French physicist and science historian, a professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.[1] She has extensively published works on Albert Einstein, the theory of relativity, and the history and epistemology of physics.
Biography
[edit]Françoise Balibar studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1960 to 1964.[2] She has written numerous articles in national and international journals and led the CNRS team in charge of six volumes of the French edition of Einstein's selected works.[1] She is also the author of several books, including The Science of Crystals and Einstein: Decoding the Universe.
She is the wife of the philosopher Étienne Balibar and the mother of the actress Jeanne Balibar. She has appeared in two films: Mange ta soupe in 1997 and Modern Life in 2000.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- Co-author with Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Quantics: Rudiments of Quantum Physics, North-Holland, 1990
- Co-author with Jean-Pierre Maury, How Things Fly, Barron's Educational Series, 1990
- The Science of Crystals, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1992
- Einstein : La joie de la pensée, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 193), série Sciences et techniques. Éditions Gallimard, 1993 (new edition in 2011)[4]
- US edition – Einstein: Decoding the Universe, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 2001
- UK edition – Einstein: Decoding the Universe, ‘New Horizons’ series. Thames & Hudson, 2005
- Marie Curie : Femme savante ou Sainte Vierge de la science ?, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 497), série Sciences et techniques. Éditions Gallimard, 2006
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Françoise Balibar". France Culture (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Françoise Balibar (Babelio)". babelio.com (in French). Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Françoise Balibar, Actress". imdb.com. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
- ^ "Einstein : La joie de la pensée, collection Découvertes Gallimard (n° 193)" (in French). Éditions Gallimard. 4 October 2011. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
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- 1941 births
- French epistemologists
- 20th-century French physicists
- French women physicists
- Audiobook narrators
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- Living people
- 21st-century French physicists
- 20th-century French women scientists
- 21st-century French women scientists
- French women historians
- 20th-century French historians
- 20th-century French women writers