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The French Academy of Sciences (''Académie des sciences'') is a Learned Society , founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert , to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific Research . It was at the forefront of scientific developments in Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.

HISTORY

The Academy of Sciences owes its origin to Colbert's plan to create a general academy. He chose a small group of scholars who met on December 22 , 1666 in the King's library, and thereafter held twice-weekly working meetings there. The first 30 years of the Academy's existence were relatively informal, since no statutes had as yet been laid down for the institution.

On January 20 , 1699 , Louis XIV gave the Company its first rules. The Academy received the title of Royal Academy of Sciences and was installed in the Louvre in Paris . On August 8 , 1793 , the National Convention abolished all the academies. On August 22 , 1795 , a '''National Institute of Sciences and Arts''' was put in place, bringing together the old academies of the sciences, literature and arts. In 1816 , the '''Academy of Sciences''' became autonomous, while forming part of the Institute Of France ; the head of State remained its patron. The Academy proceedings were published under the name ''Comptes Rendues de l'Académie des Sciences'' (1835-1965). The publications can be found on the French National Library in pdf format.

Search the Proceedings of the Académie des Sciences in the French National Library (search item: Comptes Rendus)

THE ACADEMY TODAY

Today the Academy is one of five academies comprising the and Physical sciences and their applications and the Chemical , Biological , Geological and Medical sciences and their applications.

CURRENT MEMBERS

A

Anatole Abragam - Claude Jean Allègre - Christian André Amatore - Jean-Claude Pierre André - Jacques François Olivier Angelier - Vladimir Igorevich Arnol'd - Jacques Jean Arsac - Philippe Ascher - Alain Aspect - Ivan André Albert Assenmacher - Sir Michael Francis Atiyah - Thierry Émilien Flavien Aubin - Jean Armand Aubouin - Pierre Auger

B

Jean-François Bach - George Edward Backus - Jean Roger Balian - John Mac Leod Ball - David Baltimore - Neil Bartlett - Jean-Marie Maurice Basset - Étienne-Émile Baulieu - Klaus Bechgaard - Alim-Louis Benabid - Christophe Benoist - Alain Benoît - Henri Charles Benoît - Alain Bensoussan - Pierre Marc Benveniste - Seymour Benzer - Paul Berg - André Berger - Marcel Berger - Sune Bergström - Jean Alfred Bernard - Gérard Berry - Erwin Félix Bertaut (Lewy-Bertaut) Alain Berthoz - Guy Bertrand - Albert Bijaoui - Jean-Paul Binet - Jean-Michel Philippe Marie-José Bismut - Jacques Émile José Blamont - Sylvain Blanquet - Guy Blaudin De Thé - Brebis Bleaney - Nicolaas Bloembergen - David Mervyn Blow - Joël Gérard Bockaert - Enrico Bombieri - Jean-Louis Bonnemain - Jean-Michel Bony - Christian Jean Raoul Bordé - Armand Borel - Raoul Bott - Claude Charles Bouchiat - Marie-Anne Bouchiat - Alain Michel Boudet - Jean Bourgain - Joseph Marie Bové - Pierre Braunstein - Catherine Bréchignac - Sydney Brenner - Édouard Brézin - Haïm Brezis - Gérard Bricogne - François Georges René Bruhat - Huy Duong Bui - Pierre Albert Buser

C

Bernard Cabane - Henri Cabannes - Michel Caboche - Jacques Philippe Caen - Sébastien Mathieu Candel - Nicole Capitaine - André René Gabriel Capron - Lennart Carleson - Paul Ernest Léon Caro - Edgardo D. Carosella - Alain Frédéric Carpentier - Henri Paul Cartan - Bernard Pierre François Fernand Castaing - Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza - André Denis Cauderon - Roger Cayrel - Anny Cazenave - Carlo Cercignani - Marc Chabre - William Gilbert Chaloner - Pierre Henry Chambon - Jean-Pierre Georges Changeux - Marie-Lise Chanin - Patrick Pierre Charnay - Georges Charpak - Yves Chauvin - Shiing-Shen Chern - Gustave Alfred Arthur Choquet - Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat - Philippe Gaston Ciarlet - Paul Clavin - Georges Joseph Nissim Cohen - Claude Cohen-Tannoudji - Alain Colmerauer - Michel André Combarnous - Claude Jean-Pierre Combes - Geneviève Marie Comte-Bellot - Alain Connes - Yves Jean Édouard Coppens - Robert Jean-Pierre Corriu - Riccardo Cortese - Pierre Corvol - Suzanne Cory - Pascale Cossart - Albert Frank Cotton - Georges Albert Antoine Courtès - Francis Harry Compton Crick - Hubert Curien - François Cuzin

D

Jack Dainty - Thibault Marie Alban Guillaume Damour - Pierre Darriulat - Raymond Daudel - Jean Baptiste Gabriel Dausset - Robert Dautray - Georges David - Roger David - Michel Davier - Gérard Debreu - Claude Aimé Debru - Henri Léon Décamps - Laurent Degos - Paul René Louis Deheuvels - Anne Dejean-Assemat - Pierre Dejours - Pierre Deligne - Michel Delseny - Jean-Pierre Raymond Philippe Demailly - Jean-François Denisse - Derek Ashworth Denton - Jean-Michel André Dercourt - Peter Dervan - Pierre Deslongchamps - Joseph Leo Doob - Adrien Douady - Roland Marcel Douce - Ann Patricia Dowling - Michel Duflo - Bernard Dujon - Christian Henri Jean Dumas - Michel Paul Adrien Durand-Delga - Henri Maurice Duranton - Georges Jean Duvaut - Christian De Duve - Freeman John Dyson

E

Gerald M. Edelman - Stuart Edelstein - Sir Samuel Frederick Edwards - Manfred Eigen - Pierre Jacques Colin Encrenaz - Daniel Esteve

F

Ludwig Fadeev - Anne Fagot-Largeault - Michel Fardeau - Olivier Faugeras - Alexandre Jean Auguste Favre - Pierre Fayet - Charles Fehrenbach - Noël Joseph Felici - Gérard Robert Marcel Férey - Alain Fischer - Jean Marius Flahaut - Philippe Patrick Michel Flajolet - Jean-Marc Dominique Fontaine - Maurice Alfred Fontaine - Jacques Friedel - Uriel Frisch

G

Pierre Gabriel - Pierre Galle - Madeleine Gans - Antonio Garcia-Bellido - Walter Gehring - Israël Moïseevitch Gelfand - Pierre-Gilles De Gennes - Reinhard Genzel - Paul Germain - Étienne Jean-Luc Ghys - Martin Gibbs - Jean Raymond Girard - Jean-Yves Girard - Jacques Glowinski - Roland Glowinski - André Goffeau - Marcel Golay - Maurice Goldman - John Bannister Goodenough - Denis Gratias - Howard Green - Norman Neill Greenwood - Mikhaël Gromov - François Gros - Marianne Grunberg-Manago - Jean-Pierre Grünfeld - Robert Guillaumont - Roger Charles Louis Guillemin - Bernard René Guinot - Irwin Clyde Gunsalus - John Bertrand Gurdon

H

Paul Hagenmuller - Erwin Louis Hahn - Serge Haroche - Heisuke Hironaka - Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch - Jules Alphonse Hoffmann - Francis Clark Howell - Patrick Huerre - Gérard Pierre Daniel Huet - Jean-Paul Hurault

I

Jean David Ichbiah - Jean Iliopoulos - Michel Antonin Joseph Imbert - Gérard Marie Pierre Iooss - Kiyoshi Itō - Masao Ito

J

François Jacob - Maurice René Michel Jacob - Hervé Michel Jacquet - André Louis Joseph Ghislain Baron De Jaumotte - Claude Philippe Marie Augustin Jaupart - Claude René Gustave Jeanmart - Marc Jeannerod - Yves Philippe Jeannin - Denis-Olivier Jérome - Georges Jobert - Zdenek Johan - Pierre Adrien Joliot - Jacques Robert Joussot-Dubien - Michel Valentin Marcel Jouvet - Marc Yves Julia

K

Fotis Kafatos - Henri Boris Kagan - Jean-Pierre Kahane - Axel Kahn - Gilles Kahn - Rudolf Kalman - Eric R. Kandel - Daniel Kaplan - Pierre Camille Karli - Richard Karp - Eric Karsenti - Masaki Kashiwara - Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir - Sergiu Klainerman - Daniel Kleppner - Bernard Kloareg - Aaron Klug - Donald Ervin Knuth - Maxim Kontsevich - Henri Korn - Jean-Louis André Stanislas Koszul - Vladimir Kotlyakov - Philippe Henri André Kourilsky - Jean Kovalevsky

L

Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie - Jean-Yves Lallemand - Yves Frédéric Michel Laporte - Jacques Laskar - Lucien Claude Laubier - Guy Laval - Patrick Lavelle - Jean Lucien Marie Lavorel - Peter D. Lax - Michel Maurice Lazdunski - Guy Lazorthes - Gilles René Pierre Yves Lebeau - Denis Le Bihan - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Leblond - Nicole Marthe Le Douarin - Gérard Le Fur - Jean-Marie Pierre Lehn - Pierre Jacques Lelong - Yvon Le Maho - Jean-Louis Le Mouël - Pierre Jean Léna - Gilbert Lenoir - Jean-Bernard Le Pecq - Jean-Antoine Lepesant - Xavier Thaddée Le Pichon - Henri Léridon - Claude Lévi - Rita Levi-Montalcini - Jean-Marc René Maurice Lhoste - Albert Joseph Libchaber - Amable Liñan - Pierre-Louis Lions - Jacques Livage - Rodolfo Llinás - Joseph Edmond Claude Lorius - Daniel François Louvard - William John Lucas - Henry De Lumley-Woodyear - Anders Paul Lundberg

M

Odile Macchi - Bernard François Mach - Bernard Malgrange - Edmond Malinvaud - Jacques Jean-Benoît Mallet - Paul Georges Malliavin - Jean-Louis Mandel - Daniel Albert Lucien Mansuy - Robert Gaston André Maréchal - Charles-Michel Marle - Andrée Marquet - Ghislain De Marsily - Goury Ivanovitch Martchouk - André Jean Martin - François Mathey - Michel Mayor - Ernst Mayr - Gérard Jean-Jacques Mégie - Matthew Meselson - Bernard Meunier - Dominique Meyer - Philippe Meyer - Yves Meyer - Elliot Meyerowitz - Jan Michalski - Jean-François Pierre Minster - Keith Moffatt - Roger Émile Monier - Luc Antoine Montagnier - Jean Maurice Montreuil - Dino Claude Denis Moras - Philippe Morat - René Jean Moreau - François Morel - William Jason Morgan - Leonard Earl Mortenson - Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle - Teruaki Mukaiyama - Arnold Munnich - James Dickson Murray

N

Robert Gustave Naquet - Louis Nirenberg - Yasutomi Nishizuka - Maurice Paul Nivat - Jean François Normant - Sir Gustav Joseph Victor Nossal - Arlette Thérèse Marie Nougarède - Philippe Pierre Gaston François Nozières

O

Satoshi Omura - Luis Antonio Oro - Gérard Charles Jacques Orth - Ernst Wilhelm Otten - Guy Ourisson - Paul Gabriel Ozenda

P

Adolphe Pacault - Jacob Palis - Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky - Giorgio Parisi - Lucio Paternò - Renaud Maurice Adrien Paulian - Jean-Claude Pecker - Georges Charles Pierre Pédro - Marc Joseph Michel Pélegrin - René Pellat - Georges Raymond Alain Pelletier - Pierre Claude Marie Perrier - Christine Petit - Michel Petit - Richard Peto - Emilio Picasso - Bernard Picinbono - Charles Pilet - Olivier Roger Pierre Pironneau - Gilles Pisier - Jean-Paul Georges André Poirier - Alexandre Polyakov - Yves Pomeau - Pierre Jean-Paul Potier - Michel Charles Raymond Pouchard - Robert Vivian Pound - Jacques Pouysségur - Frank Press - Jean-Loup Puget

Q

Yves Quéré

R

Michael Oser Rabin - Miroslav Radman - Norman Foster Ramsey - Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra (C.N.R). Rao - André Pierre Joseph Rassat - Bernard Jean Raveau - Pierre-Arnaud André Georges Raviart - Michel Raynaud - Paul-Henri Joseph Rebut - Serge Renaudin - Pascal Ribéreau-Gayon - Jacques Ricard - James Robert Rice - Alexander Rich - Sir Rex Edward Richards - Daniel Ricquier - Jean Henri Léon Marie Robieux - Henri Marcel Rochefort - Herbert Roesky - Michel Rohmer - Bernard Pierre Roques - Jean Rosa - Maurice Edmond Adolphe Roseau - Jean Rossier - François Rougeon - Colin Joseph Rua - David Pierre Ruelle - Jacques Alphonse Ruffié

S

David Domingo Sabatini - Jean Charles Roger Salençon - Bengt Samuelsson - Evariste Sanchez-Palencia - Frederick Sanger - Philippe Joseph Sansonetti - Jean-Pierre Sauvage - Jean-Michel Savéant - Évry Léon Schatzman - Knut Schmidt-Nielsen - Daniel Schwartz - Jean-Charles Schwartz - Maxime Simon Schwartz - Eugen Seibold - Michaël Sela - André Sentenac - Jean-Pierre Serre - Pierre Maurice Sigwalt - Arndt Simon - Pierre Georges Sinaÿ - Georges Slodzian - Piotr Slonimski - Ionel Solomon - Susan Solomon - Christophe Jean Marcel Soulé - Erich Spitz - Mathias Springer - Dominique Stéhelin - Raymond Félix Stora - Gilbert Stork - Pierre Marie-Joseph Henri Suquet

T

Michel Pierre Talagrand - Paul Eugène Tapponnier - Philippe Taquet - Jean-Marie Tarascon - Andrzej K. Tarkowski - Luc Charles Tartar - John Torrence Tate - Valentine Louis Teledgi - Guy Blaudin De Thé - Michel Émile Thellier - Jean-Paul Thiery - Gerard 't Hooft - Pierre Jean René Noël Tiollais - Jean François Marie Tirouflet - Bernard Pierre Henri Tissot - Jacques Tits - Gérard Toulouse - Roland Henri Tricot - Rudolf Daniel Trümpy - Maurice René Tubiana

V

Constantin Vago - Alain-Jacques Valleron - Gabriele Veneziano - Michèle Françoise Vergne - Jacques Villain - Jean-Didier Vincent

W

Zhen-Yi Wang - Jean Weissenbach - Éric Westhof - Andrew John Wiles - Edward Witten - Gérard Gabriel Wlérick - Élie Léo Wollman - Lodewijk Woltjer - Kurt Wüthrich

Y

Moshe Yaniv - Jean-Christophe Yoccoz - Marc Jean Yor

Z

André Zaoui

EXTERNAL LINKS

Academy website (In English)

Notes on the Académie des Sciences from the Scholarly Societies project (includes information on the society journals)