French Doctoral Theses

French Cultural Services in New York, French Doctoral Theses, Science, 1951-1953 (1955). An issue of the French Bibliographical Digest (No. 1, series 111) prepared and distributed as a ide to advanced researchers. Covers biology, botany, biochemistry, logic and philosophy of science, hygiene, etc. Subject index is included. French Doctoral Theses—Pharmacy and Medicine, 1951-1954 is also available. 

Scientists in the 1920s, speculating on this problem, became convinced that an entirely new approach was required to treat electrons in atoms and molecules. In 1924 a young French scientist, Louis de Broglie (1892-1987), in his doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne made a revolutionary suggestion. He reasoned that if light could show the behavior of particles (photons) as well as waves, then perhaps an electron, which Bohr had treated as a particle, could behave like a wave. In a few years, de Broglie s postulate was confirmed experimentally. This led to the development of a whole new discipline, first called wave mechanics, more commonly known today as quantum mechanics. 

The first chair of theoretical physics in France was the professorship established for Pierre Duhem in 1894 at the Bordeaux Faculty of Sciences. 1 Duhem was well known in French scientific circles not only as a physicist but as a physicist of exceptional mathematical skills who addressed himself early in his scientific studies to chemical problems. He wrote a controversial doctoral thesis (1886) in which he developed the concept of thermodynamic potential for chemistry and physics, and he later developed a treatment of equilibrium processes formally analogous to the mechanics of Lagrange. The goal was to make mechanics a branch of the more general science of thermodynamics, a science that embraces "every change of qualities, properties, physical state, chemical constitution. "2... 

In the fall of 1981, my wife, Janet Denlinger and I went to Paris to spend a year in Laszlo Robert and Jacqueline Labat-Robert s Biochemistry of Connective Tissue Laboratory at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Paris. Laszlo and his wife Jacqueline are well-known researchers in the connective tissue field. The objective was for Janet to carry out research in the collaboration with the Roberts and write her doctoral thesis on the metabolism of hyaluronan in the vitreus and joint. She had already completed her course work at Columbia University. Professor Jean Montreuil, a polysaccharide chemist and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Lille, along with Professor Robert, accepted the sponsorship of Janet s doctoral thesis which she presented in May of 1982 in French, earning a summa cum laude mention along with her degree. Her thesis work laid the foundation of our understanding of how hyaluronan is metabolized in the vitreus and joints of various animal species such as horses, rabbits and monkeys. 

Strongly influenced by the interpretation of the Compton effect, the French physicist Louis Victor, Prince de Broghe (1892-1987, 1929 Nobel laureate in Physics), suggested in his doctoral thesis in 1924 that the wave-particle duahty for photons could be extended to any particle of momentum p = mv which, somehow, would then have a wavelength - the de Broglie wavelength - associated with it and given by... 

Far from being disinterested in hashish, however, French scientists seemed very curious and intrigued about its therapeutic potentials. In 1847, the Pharmaceutical Society of Paris posted a prize for the isolation of the active principle in cannabis, which was eventually won in 1857. In 1848, the first doctoral thesis on hashish was written by DeCourtive, whose pharmacopoeia Charles Baudelaire later relied on for much of his information about hashish. 

Long, N. (2003) Analyses morphologiques et aerodynamiques du tissu urbain - Application a la climatologie urbaine de Marseille pendant la campagne ES-COMPTE, Doctoral Thesis (in French), Universite des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, Dec 2003. 

Bourgeois F. 2002. Development of constitutive models for partially saturated rocks and concrete with microcracks, doctoral thesis. University of Lille, (in French). 

Chiarelli A.S., 2000. Experimental investigation and constitutive modelling of coupled elastoplastic damage in hard claystones. Doctoral thesis (in French), University of Lille. ... 

Unexpectedly, this research project was a revelation for me and a few years later I wrote a doctoral thesis in sociology on engineering ethics and the French engineers ... 

Therefore, asserts price dynamics are assumed to be stochastic processes. An early key-concept to understand stochastic processes was the random walk. The first theoretical description of a random walk in the natural sciences was performed in 1905 by Einstein s analysis of molecular interactions. But the first mathematization of a random walk was not realized in physics, but in social sciences by the French mathematician, Louis Jean Bachelier (1870-1946). In 1900 he published his doctoral thesis with the title Theorie de la Spdculation [28]. During that time, most market analysis looked at stock and bond prices in a causal way Something happens as cause and prices react as effect. In complex markets with thousands of actions and reactions, a causal analysis is even difficult to work out afterwards, but impossible to forecast beforehand. One can never know everything. Instead, Bachelier tried to estimate the odds that prices will move. He was inspired by an analogy between the diffusion of heat through a substance and how a bond price wanders up and down. In his view, both are processes that cannot be forecast precisely. At the level of particles in matter or of individuals in markets, the details are too complicated. One... 

Joliot-Curie, Irene (1897-1956) French Nuclear physicist Irene Curie was born in Paris on September 12, 1897, the daughter of the Nobel laureate physicists Pierre and Marie Curie. Growing up in the Curie family, Irene had no doubt that she would follow in her famous parents footsteps. First home-schooled, she finished high school at College Sevigne, an independent school in the center of Paris, and then received a baccalaureat from the same academy in 1914 and a doctorate of science from the Sorbonne in 1925 for her thesis on the alpha rays of polonium. She served in World War I as a nurse radiographer. After the war, she joined her mother as an assistant at the Institute of Radium. 

Unknown to the physical and biological scientific communities, the ideas on the diffusion of probabilities had been published by the French mathematician Louis Bachelier (1900) 5 years before Einstein s 1905 Ann. Phys. paper on Brownian motion. The work constituted his thesis for the degree of Doctor of... 

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