- Albert Jacquard
Infobox Scientist
name = Albert Jacquard
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1925|12|23|df=y
birth_place =Lyon ,Rhône ,France
death_date =
death_place = Princeton,New Jersey , U.S.
residence =France ,Switzerland ,United States
citizenship = French (1925-)
ethnicity =Caucasian
field = Geneticist
work_institutions = Institute of statiticsSEITA (Paris )
French Court of Financial Auditor
French Institute for Demographical StudiesWorld Health Organization
French Comité consultatif national d'éthique
alma_mater = Polytechnical SchoolStanford University (doctorate)
doctoral_advisor =
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prizes = (1980)
Fondation de France scientific medal (1980)
Albert Jacquard (born in
Lyon on23 December 1925 ) is a French geneticist and essayist.He strongly advocates in favor of
Uneconomic growth Beginnings
He was born in a catholic and conservative family from the region of
Franche-Comté (east ofFrance ). At the age of nine, he was disfigured after a car accident in which his brother died. In 1943, he earned two baccalaureates in mathematics and philosophy. In 1948, he earned a master degree in public factory engineering from the french Polytechnical School and joined the french Institute of statistics.As a high-level civil servant
In 1951, he entered the french tobacco monopoly
SEITA (which merged with its spanish counterpartTabacalera to formAltadis in 1999) as an organisation and method engineer. Then, he worked as a "rapporteur" in the French Court of Financial Auditor (equivalent to the USGovernment Accountability Office ) and as a senior executive in theFrench Health ministry . In 1966, he went toStanford University to study populationgenetics as a Research worker. Back inFrance in 1968, he joined French Institute for Demographical Studies as supervisor of thegenetics department. In 1973, he was appointed expert in genetics in the World Health Organisation. He retired in 1985.As a university professor
While he was still working in the World Health Organisation, he taught as visiting professor several university such as the
University of Geneva inSwitzerland (1973-1976),Pierre and Marie Curie University inParis (1978-1990) or the Catholic University of Leuven inBelgium (1979-1981). As a recognition for his work, he was awarded the French Légion d'honneur, the French Ordre national du Mérite and the "Fondation de France" scientific medal.Ethical and political involvement
While he was part of the French Consultative Committee of Ethics ("Comité consultatif national d'éthique") in the early 1990s, he took a strong stand against commercial use of the
human genome .He’s now very close to the
Anti-globalisation movement and regularly comes to defence of illegal immigrants and homeless people inFrance .He wrote several books to expose his views and share his experience with new generations.
Bibliography
cientific work
*"Structure génétique des populations", Masson, 1970 (in french)
*"Les probabilités", Collection Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, 1974 (in french)
*"Génétique des populations humaines", Presses universitaires de France, 1974 (in french)
*"The Genetic Structure of Populations", Springer, 1974
*"L’Étude des isolats. Espoirs et limites", Presse universitaires de France-INED, 1976 (in french)
*"Concepts en génétique des populations", Masson, 1977 (in french)Popular science (in french)
*"Éloge de la différence", Éditions du Seuil, 1978
*"Moi et les autres", Éditions du Seuil, 1983
*"Au péril de la science ?", Éditions du Seuil, 1984
* "Inventer l’homme", Éditions Complexe, 1984
*"L’Héritage de la liberté", Éditions du Seuil, 1986
*"Cinq milliards d’hommes dans un vaisseau", Éditions du Seuil, 1987
*"Moi, je viens d’où ?", Éditions du Seuil, 1988
*"Abécédaire de l’ambiguïté", Éditions du Seuil, 1989
*"C’est quoi l’intelligence ?", Éditions du Seuil, 1989
*"Idées vécues", Flammarion, 1990
*"Voici le temps du monde fini", Éditions du Seuil, 1991
*"Tous différents, tous pareils", Éditions Nathan, 1991
*"Comme un cri du cœur", Éditions l’Essentiel, 1992 (collective work)
*"La Légende de la vie", Flammarion, 1992
*"E=CM2", Éditions du Seuil, 1993
*"Deux sacrés grumeaux d’étoile", Éditions de la Nacelle, octobre 1993
*"Science et croyances", Éditions Écriture, mars 1994
*"Absolu, dialogue avec l’abbé Pierre", Éditions du Seuil, 1994
*"L’Explosion démographique", Flammarion, collection « Dominos », 1994
*"La Matière et la vie", Éditions Milan, coll. « Les essentiels », 1995
*"La Légende de demain", Flammarion, 1997
*"L’Équation du nénuphar", Calmann-Lévy, 1998
*"L'avenir n'est pas écrit", (with Axel Kahn), Bayard, 2001
*"Paroles citoyennes", (with Alix Domergue), Albin Michel, 2001
*"De l'angoisse à l'espoir", (with Cristiana Spinedi), Calmann Lévy, 2002
*"La Science à l’usage des non-scientifiques", 2003Political and philosophical work (in french)
*"Un monde sans prisons ?", Éditions du Seuil, 1993
*"J’accuse l’économie triomphante", Calmann-Lévy, 1996
*"Le Souci des pauvres. L’Héritage de François d’Assise", Calmann-Lévy, 1996
*"Petite philosophie à l’usage des non philosophes", Québec-Livres, 1997
*"Le Souci des pauvres", 1998
*"A toi qui n’est pas encore né", 1998
*"Dieu ?", 2003
*"Tentative de lucidité", 2003 ( [http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture/emissions/jacquard/archives.php archives des chroniques] )
*"Halte aux Jeux !", Stock, 2004
*"Nouvelle petite philosophie", Stock, 2005
*"Mon utopie", Stock, 2006
*"Jamais soumis, jamais soumise" (dialogue withFadela Amara ), Stock, 2007Sources
Translated from the french version.
External links
* [http://www.albertjacquard.com/ Official website] (In french)
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