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Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin (7 July 1905 – 19 October 1972) was a French mathematician, the second woman to obtain a doctorate in pure mathematics in France, the first woman to become a full professor of mathematics in France, the president of the French Mathematical Society, and an expert on fluid mechanics and abstract algebra.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the insights of this French philosopher into the relationship between mind and body, the role of language in thought and the value of habits

27 March 2025

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Featuring: Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, Thomas Baldwin, Timothy Mooney

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The Curies

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the scientific achievements of the Curie family, Marie and Pierre and their daughter Irene Joliot-Curie, all three of whom won Nobel Prizes.

26 March 2015

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Featuring: Patricia Fara, Robert Fox, Steven T Bramwell

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History Women Nobel laureates University of Paris alumni Legion of Honour refusals Former Roman Catholics Discoverers of chemical elements Honorary members of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Recipients of the Matteucci Medal Burials at the Panthéon, Paris Naturalized citizens of France Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1917–1925)Nobel laureates in Physics Women nuclear physicists Experimental physicists Academic staff of the University of Paris 19th-century French chemists French Nobel laureates Women inventors French agnostics French women physicists French atheists Nobel laureates in Chemistry 19th century France