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Most influential philosopher or thinker: Aristotle; Charles Darwin; Jacques Monod...
...very French old guard he considered obsolete. The nation's business establishment - led by the doyen of French industry, Claude Bébéar - lobbied for his ouster. That behind-the-scenes intrigue reportedly got decisive support from Chirac advisers like Jérôme Monod - a former official at Vivendi's French rival Suez. Their view that Messier would bankrupt his corporate creation - discrediting the entire Paris Bourse in the process - was pressed upon Chirac allies on Vivendi's board, and down went Messier. Replacing him is Jean-René Fourtou, the non-executive vice chairman...
Russell's despairing tone is frequently echoed by contemporary thinkers. Thus the French Nobel-prizewinning biologist Jacques Monod writes, "Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he has emerged only by chance...
...Audre M. Lwoff. the 83-year-old biologist, shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his DNA work. He won the award--with Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob--for his demonstration of lysogeny, a process in which the DNA of a virus becomes incorporated into a bacterial chromosome...
Williams established his teas in 1950 and his guests could provide a who's who in the scientific world. Numerous Nobel laureates drop by including many international scientists such as August Krogh, Hans Boethe and Jaque Monod. The teas give Williams a chance to exhibit his enormous range of knowledge and provide an opportunity for students to participate in discussions with professors on a relatively informal basis. Kafatos said even in the early '60s. Williams' teas were legendary. Corsiglia said she never knows who will show up and that she is constantly amazed at the spectacularly broad knowledge of science...