Odile Jacob
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Odile Jacob is a French
publisher who founded Les Éditions Odile Jacob in the middle of the 1980s. She is also a trained scientist, studying the workings of the brain, the mind and thought. She is a member of Le Siècle.[1]
Biography
Odile Jacob's father,
Nobel Prize in Medicine
.
Having been awarded a
Cognitive Psychology at New York City’s Rockefeller University
.
Forced to return to France for family reasons, she decided to become a
publisher. Her company's goals were to give readers an understanding of the scientific advances that have transformed our contemporary world, and to make scientists and scholars internationally recognized. Jacob's achievements also include the development of state-of-the-art software to teach science[clarification needed
] — mathematics, physics, biology — and to help children learn science as early as possible.
The "Editions Odile Jacob" publishing company has published the work of many scientists and
James Watson, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, Gerald Edelman, and Antonio Damasio. Jacob has also developed a strong list devoted to current affairs and politics: the former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, the former U.S. Secretary of the State Colin Powell, the former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, the former Soviet foreign affairs Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, the late French President François Mitterrand, the former French President Jacques Chirac, and also the former European Commission Chairman Jacques Delors
.
Awards
- 1991: Grand Prix de l’Information Scientifique by the French Academy of Sciences
- 1995: businesswoman of the year by the Veuve Clicquot Prize Jury
- 2004: recipient of the Turin, Italy and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne
- 2010: Officier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor
References
- ^ Frédéric Saliba, 'Le pouvoir à la table du Siècle', in Stratégies, issue 1365, April 14, 2005, p. 49 [1]
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