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A cause célèbre (/ ˌ k ɔː z s ə ˈ l ɛ b (r ə)/ ⓘ KAWZ sə-LEB(-rə), [1] French: [koz selɛbʁ]; pl. causes célèbres, pronounced like the singular) is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. [2]
L'Occident et la direction spirituelle du monde. (Allocution prononcée le vendredi 18 novembre 1932.), Neuilly, La Cause, 1932; L'Œuvre scientifique d'André Siegfried, Paris, Presses de la Fondation nationale des sciences politiques, 1977; Mes Souvenirs de la IIIe république.
Succès de scandale (French for "success from scandal") is a term for any artistic work whose success is attributed, in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work. In some cases the controversy causes audiences to seek out the work for its titillating content, while in others it simply heightens public curiosity.
Several essays about aesthetics followed, whereupon Schlick turned his attention to problems of epistemology, the philosophy of science, and more general questions about science. In this last category, Schlick distinguished himself by publishing a paper in 1915 about Einstein 's special theory of relativity , a topic only ten years old.
This is a list of notable French scientists. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. A José Achache (20th-21st centuries), geophysicist and ecologist Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717–1783), mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher Claude Allègre (born 1937 ...
The Leconte Prize (French: Prix Leconte) is a prize created in 1886 by the French Academy of Sciences to recognize important discoveries in mathematics, physics, chemistry, natural history or medicine. In recent years the prize has been awarded in the specific categories of mathematics, physics, and biology.
The current leader is Roger Chartier, who is Directeur d'Études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Professeur in the Collège de France, and Annenberg Visiting professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. He frequently lectures and teaches in the United States, Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
Eight years later, in a speech before the Prussian Academy of Sciences, he expanded his list of conundrums to seven "world riddles" or "shortcomings" of science. [2] Three of these he declared to be " transcendent ", or permanently unknowable: "1. the ultimate nature of matter and energy, 2. the origin of motion, ...