Blaise Pascal Chair


The Blaise Pascal Chairs, established in 1996 by the Government of the Île-de-France Region for internationally acclaimed foreign scientists in all disciplines. A scientific committee annually selects the most outstanding candidates from all over the world. Since their inception a number of famous scientists have been
Blaise Pascal Chair laureates: Gérard Debreu, Ahmed Zewail,
Igor Mel'čuk,
George Smoot,
Robert Langlands, outstanding theoretical physicists Gabriele Veneziano, Alexander Zamolodchikov, and others.