List of École Normale Supérieure people
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Here follows a list of notable alumni and faculty of the École Normale Supérieure.
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
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[edit] Alumni
The year when they entered the ENS is in parenthesis.
[edit] Nobel laureates
- Henri Bergson (1878) (1927 Nobel Prize in Literature)
- Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (1953, 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Gérard Debreu (1941) (1983 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel)
- Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1951, 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Albert Fert (1957, 2007 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Alfred Kastler (1921, 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Gabriel Lippmann (1868, 1908 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Louis Néel (1924, 1970 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Jean-Baptiste Perrin (1891, 1926 Nobel Prize in Physics)
- Romain Rolland (1886 , 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature)
- Paul Sabatier (1874, 1912 Nobel Prize in Chemistry)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1924, declined 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature)
[edit] Fields Medal laureates
All French holders of the Fields Medal mathematics award were educated at the École Normale Supérieure
- Laurent Schwartz (1934): 1950 Fields Medalist
- Jean-Pierre Serre (1945): 1954 Fields Medalist
- René Thom (1943): 1958 Fields Medalist
- Alain Connes (1966): 1982 Fields Medalist
- Jean-Christophe Yoccoz (1975): 1994 Fields Medalist
- Pierre-Louis Lions (1975): 1994 Fields Medalist
- Laurent Lafforgue (1986): 2002 Fields Medalist
- Wendelin Werner (1987): 2006 Fields Medalist
[edit] Sciences
[edit] Medicine and biology
- Stanislas Dehaene (1984) (Current Chair of Experimental Psychology at the Collège de France)
- Louis Pasteur (1843), chemist and microbiologist, confirmed the germ theory of disease
[edit] Physics
- See also: #Nobel laureates
- Édouard Branly (1865)
- Marcel Brillouin (1878)
- Léon Brillouin
- Hubert Curien (1945)
- Thomas Fink
- Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
- Paul Langevin (1894)
- Yves Rocard
- Georges Sagnac (1889)
[edit] Mathematics
- See also: #Fields Medal laureates
- Paul Emile Appell (1872)
- Cahit Arf (1932)
- Émile Borel (1889)
- Élie Cartan (1888)
- Henri Cartan (1923), cofounder of Bourbaki
- Claude Chevalley (1926)
- Antoine Augustin Cournot
- Jean Gaston Darboux
- Jean Dieudonné (1924), cofounder of Bourbaki
- Adrien Douady (1954)
- Pierre Fatou (1898)
- Maurice René Fréchet
- Évariste Galois (1829), originated Galois theory
- Roger Godement (1940)
- Jacques Hadamard
- Jacques Herbrand (1925)
- Henri Lebesgue
- Jean Leray (1926)
- Édouard Lucas
- Szolem Mandelbrojt, cofounder of Bourbaki
- Paul Painlevé (1883)
- Mihailo Petrović (1890)
- Charles Emile Picard
- Gheorghe Tzitzeica
- Paul Vidal de la Blache (1863), considered as the founder of French modern geography
- André Weil (1922), cofounder of Bourbaki
[edit] Humanities
[edit] Philosophy
- Louis Althusser (1939), Marxist philosopher
- Raymond Aron (1924), political philosopher, founder of French conservative thought post-1960.
- Étienne Balibar (1960), philosopher and linguist
- Georges Canguilhem (1924), philosopher of science
- Emile Auguste Chartier "Alain" (1889), philosopher
- André Comte-Sponville (1972), philosopher and essayist
- Jean Cavaillès (1923), philosopher and Résistant, martyred by the Germans
- Jacques Derrida (1952), founder of deconstruction.
- Michel Foucault (1946), Historian of Systems of Thought, member of College de France
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1926), phenomenologist
- Jean Hyppolite, founder of Hegelian studies in France
- Philippe-Joseph Salazar (1975), rhetorician [1], member of College international de philosophie
- Hippolyte Taine (1893)
- Simone Weil (1928), philosopher and mystic
[edit] Sociology
- Pierre Bourdieu (1951)
- Raymond Boudon
- Emile Durkheim (1879), considered the founder of French sociology
[edit] Literature
- Paul Bénichou (1927)
- Robert Brasillach, novelist, critic and pro-nazi collaborationist
- Aimé Césaire (1935), poet and politician
- Assia Djebar (1955), Algerian novelist anf film-malker
- Jean Giraudoux (1903), playwright
- Julien Gracq (1930), novelist and literary critic
- Paul Nizan (1924)
- Charles Péguy (1894), poet
- Jules Romains (1906), novelist
- Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1980)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet and president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980
[edit] Literary criticism
[edit] History
- Marc Bloch (1904), cofounder of the Annales School
- Georges Dumézil (1916), specialist of Proto-Indo-European society and creator of the trifunctional hypothesis
- Lucien Febvre (1899), cofounder of the Annales School
- Marcel Granet (1904), sinologist
- Jacques Le Goff (1945), medievalist
- Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1949), historian
- Neil MacGregor, art historian, Director of the British Museum
- Jacques Soustelle (1929), ethnologist
[edit] Government and public policy
- Léon Blum (1890) (expelled during his third year), First Socialist Prime Minister of France in 1936
- Pierre Brossolette (1922) (politician and resistant)
- Laurent Fabius (1966), Prime minister of France from 1984 to 1986
- Édouard Herriot (1891), Prime minister of France in 1924-1925, 1926 and 1932
- Jean Jaurès (1878) Socialist leader
- Alain Juppé (1964), Prime minister of France from 1995 to 1997
- Paul Painlevé (1883), mathematician and Prime minister of France in 1917 and 1925
- Georges Pompidou (1931), Prime minister of France from 1962 to 1968 and President of France from 1969 to 1974
[edit] Business
- Anne Lauvergeon (1978) President of Areva
[edit] Faculty
- Louis Althusser
- Alain Badiou
- Samuel Beckett (1969 Nobel Prize in Literature)
- Pierre Bonnet
- Paul Celan
- Victor Cousin
- John Coates
- Fustel de Coulanges
- Jacques Derrida
- Alfred Des Cloizeaux
- Laurent Freidel
- Jacques Lacan
- Ernest Lavisse
- Alfred Kastler
- Thomas MacGreevy
- Jacqueline de Romilly
- Jean-Pierre Serre
[edit] Sources
Dates of entrance at the ENS can be checked at http://www.archicubes.ens.fr/
