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… for nuclear medicine made 90 years ago This article was originally published in L'Édition n°27. In 1935, Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of … Because of this difference in composition, not all isotopes have the same properties. Some are said to be stable: they …
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… In search of antimatter In search of antimatter This article was originally published in L'Édition n°23. Antimatter. This … carried out in large particle accelerators, going all the way back to the very first moments of the Big Bang. … To trace the history of antimatter and its beginnings, we have to go back almost a century, to 1928, when Paul Dirac, …
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… students can sponsor international students who have recently joined the university. Funded via the French … Paris-Saclay Buddy Program. For most of the students, it was the opportunity for both mentors and mentees to meet for the first time. During an intercultural awareness workshop, the mentors discovered what surprised …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… fascinated by solving mathematical problems, some of which have remained unsolved for many hundreds of years. The French Academy of Sciences recently awarded him the ‘Sophie Germain - Fondation de l’Institut de … With his passion for classical mathematics, he leaned towards analytical number theory, which was a relatively …
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… celebrates its tenth anniversary Research ( This article was originally published in L'Édition N.19). In 2012, … physicists at Université Paris-Saclay respond. “I think we have it.” At the CERN headquarters in Geneva on 4 July 2012, … by Peter Higgs in 1964. The British researcher, who was in Switzerland when the discovery of the boson which now …
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Innovation
… or drug-related factor. In all cases, the vascular walls are under attack. Our vessels repair themselves every … and engaged in proliferating cancer cells, in the same way as in vascular cells in the case of this pathology," … nervous system." And Sylvia Cohen-Kaminsky adds: "We have shown that when our drug candidate is administered in …
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… published in L'Édition N.21 . For some time, new themes have been emerging in spintronics, exploring the original … French physicists Albert Fert and German Peter Grünberg – awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2007 – marked the … 30% by 2030. An environmental cost incompatible with global warming and the need for energy sobriety. Consequently, a …
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Researcher portraits, Research
… of personal contacts and stories of people with whom I have worked”, says Stocchi. TESHEP is the result of the work … Laboratoire de physique théorique (LPT). “These labs have always closely collaborated , says the researcher. They were … of the Orsay valley under a single entity. The goal was for them to join forces to have a greater impact in …
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… his energy to fighting cancer. “In the past, lung cancer was perceived as a single disease: it was the cancer of the smoker,” says Jean-Charles Soria. … the greatest number of patients throughout the country. We have an obligation to train people, to popularise our …
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… which differ from genes in that they are mobile and have a major impact on the evolution of species because of … “I had a sudden revelation and I said to myself that I wanted to do genetics. Everything suddenly became crystal … in 1996. He followed this with two post-docs. The first was at Généthon (where he also taught at Évry University) …
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… digestibility of milk and yoghurt proteins in humans. “It was during this period that I discovered the use of stable … my career,” recalls the researcher. Her career could have taken a completely different trajectory when, after … to start a post-doc in England as initially planned. I wanted to return to the academic world, but this experience …
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Education, Campus life
… and academic success of these students? (This article was originally published in L'Edition No. 23) Education … and personalised support Olivier Jaoui and Ivan Dury have a wide range of tools at their disposal to help young … coming to class, but she managed to make it all the way to the first year of the Master’s degree and is now able …
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