French Doctoral Theses Science

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. 

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... 

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. 

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. 

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... 

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