"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> a écrit dans le message de groupe de
discussion : 4be9b5aa$1@news.povray.org...
> http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2009/10/
> the_top_five_most_famous_living_scientists.html
Reading this list I realise that "famous living scientists" are probably
more "locally" famous than world-famous. Of the 5 scientists cited in the
blog, only Hawking is something of a star in France. The others are just
unknown outside scientific circles. The French never hear about Dawkins
because evolution and atheism are non-issues here. Climate change was not
controversial until last year so we didn't hear about Hansen (and the
controversy is mostly reduced to a couple of loudmouths). Watson & Crick
were always overshadowed by Monod. Goodall got a couple of medals here but
she isn't well known here either. On the other hand, local scientists or
French-speaking ones like Trinh Xuan Thuan (US) or Hubert Reeves (Canadian)
are popular figures, mostly due to media exposure.
G.
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