The red table, saturated with formulas, hung on one of the walls of his office is not there to make a splash.
Before being director of the École normale supérieure, Marc Mézard was first and foremost a great scientist.
However, we must remain humble, to run the largest factory of Nobel Prize in France (13 since 1905), temple of knowledge in the rue d'Ulm, a few meters from the Pantheon.
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Tall, athletic, in his sixties, he is not, the one who welcomes us in his office does not look like a professor Tournesol.
For eight years at the head of the school, it is with energy but smoothly, that he has succeeded in opening his dear school to society and the world while promoting the excellence of French research.
He is also proud to announce the imminent arrival of Esther Duflo, normalienne and Nobel Prize winner in economics, who came with her husband from MIT.
Sure, he's brilliant.
His baccalaureate obtained with the congratulations of the jury attests it, at a time when the simple mentions very well
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