Albert Jacquard

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Albert Jacquard (2009)

Albert Jacquard (born December 23, 1925 in Lyon , † September 11, 2013 in Paris ) was a French population geneticist , social philosopher and popular science author.

Life

Albert Jacquard grew up in a Catholic, upper-class family. In 1934 he lost his brother and grandparents in an accident. After the end of the war he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanical engineer and systems engineer and was employed in the civil service in changing functions, for example in the economic supervision of government industry (SEITA) and in the health sector. In 1966 he completed further training in questions of demography and genetics in the USA and worked at Stanford . After his return he worked at the Institut national d'études demographiques (INED) and received his PhD in genetics in 1970 and in human biology in 1972 . As an expert in questions of genetics, he was delegated to the World Health Organization (WHO) from 1973 to 1985 . After working as a visiting professor at the University of Geneva from 1973 to 1976, he received a visiting professorship there. He was appointed professor at the Université catholique de Louvain between 1979 and 1981 and the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris between 1978 and 1990.

He wrote regularly for the newspaper Le Monde diplomatique and between 2001 and 2010 had a program on France Culture .

Jacquard was a member of the national ethics committee ( Comité consultatif national d'éthique ) from 1983 to 1988 . Jacquard was involved in a wide range of civil society initiatives, such as against bullfighting , for free software , supporter of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine . He was an atheist . In 1999 he ran for the European Parliament on the list of Les Verts kept by Daniel Cohn-Bendit . He was an Esperantist and supported the list Europe - Democracy - Esperanto in the 2004 European elections .

Jacquard has published over fifty books, some of which were popular science, and he has been translated into several languages. “There is no hierarchy of races, was his message”.

Jacquard received honorary doctorates from several universities, he was accepted as an officer in the Legion of Honor in 1980 and received the degree of Grand Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite in 2012 .

Fonts (selection)

  • Dans ma jeunesse . Stock, 2012
  • Mon utopia . 2006
  • Hold aux jeux! 2004
  • Dieu? . Editions Stock, 2003
  • La science à l'usage des non-scientifiques . 2003
  • What we really need to know to understand the world . Rogner and Bernhard at two thousand and one, Frankfurt am Main 2002
  • Man and his genes . BLT, Bergisch Gladbach 1998
  • J'accuse l'économie triomphante . 1995
  • L'explosion demographique: un exposure pour comprendre, un essai pour réfléchir . 1993
  • La legend de la vie . 1992
  • Voici le temps du monde fini . 1991
  • Cinq milliards d'hommes in un vaisseau . 1987
  • L'heritage de la liberte: de l'animalite a l'humanitude . 1986
  • Les Probabilités . 1974
  • Structures génétiques des populations . 1970

Web links

Commons : Albert Jacquard  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Albert Jacquard  - Quotes (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Jacquard était "une lumière" , at Le Monde , September 12, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c Jürg Altwegg : Das Gewissen , FAZ , September 14, 2013, p. 38
  3. ↑ Valérie Debieux: Dans ma jeunesse, Albert Jacquard , La Une livres.
personal data
SURNAME Jacquard, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French biologist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH 11th September 2013
Place of death Paris