Françoise Balibar

Françoise Balibar (born Françoise Dumesnil; 1941) is a French physicist and science historian, a professor emeritus at Paris Diderot University.^[1] She has extensively published works on Albert Einstein, the theory of relativity, and the history and epistemology of physics.

Biography[]

Françoise Balibar studied at École Normale Supérieure from 1960 to 1964.^[2] She has written numerous articles in national and international journals and led the CNRS team in charge of six volumes of the French edition of Einstein's selected works.^[1] She is also the author of several books, including The Science of Crystals and Einstein: Decoding the Universe.

She is the wife of the philosopher Étienne Balibar and the mother of the actress Jeanne Balibar. She has appeared in two films:  [fr] in 1997 and Modern Life in 2000.^[3]

Selected publications[]

• Co-author with Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond, Quantics: Rudiments of Quantum Physics, North-Holland, 1990
• Co-author with Jean-Pierre Maury, How Things Fly, Barron's Educational Series, 1990
• The Science of Crystals, McGraw-Hill Companies, 1992
• Einstein : La joie de la pensée, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 193), série Sciences et techniques. Éditions Gallimard, 1993 (new edition in 2011)^[4]
  • US edition – Einstein: Decoding the Universe, “Abrams Discoveries” series. Harry N. Abrams, 2001
  • UK edition – Einstein: Decoding the Universe, ‘New Horizons’ series. Thames & Hudson, 2005
• Marie Curie : Femme savante ou Sainte Vierge de la science ?, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 497), série Sciences et techniques. Éditions Gallimard, 2006

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