Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent (* as Bernadette Vincent, July 7, 1949 in Béziers ) is a French science historian and philosopher, specializing in the history of chemistry.
Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent studied at the École normal supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (then Fontenay aux Roses) with the Agrégation in Philosophy in 1971 and received her doctorate in 1981. She was then a school teacher, conducted research from 1982 to 1987 (and 1996/97) at the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie, was Chargé de Recherche of the CNRS in 1982 and, from 1989, Maitre de conference at the University of Paris X. She was from 1997 to 2010 Professor at the University of Paris X and has been a professor at the Sorbonne since 2010 .
From 1998 to 2002 she headed the Center d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences at the University of Paris X (Nanterre).
She dealt with the philosophy of positivism, Émile Meyerson , the philosophy of science and technology, and the history of chemistry. She wrote biographies of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and Paul Langevin .
She is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France and on the ethics committee of the CNRS.
She was visiting professor at the Autonomous Universities in Madrid and Barcelona, at the Universities of Vienna, Bielefeld and Geneva, was at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2001) and at the Pontifical University in Sao Paulo.
In 1997 she received the Dexter Award for Chemical History.
She is married and has three children.
Fonts
- Paul Langevin. Science et vigilance , Paris, Belin, 1987.
- Lavoisier. Mémoires d'une révolution , Flammarion, collection Figures de la science, 1993.
- Dans le laboratoire de Lavoisier , Nathan, Monde en Poche, 1993.
- Eloge you mixed. Matériaux nouveaux et philosophie ancienne , Paris, Hachette Littératures, 1998.
- L'opinion publique et la science. À chacun son ignorance , Synthélabo, Paris, 2000. New edition as: La science contre l'opinion: histoire d'un divorce , Seuil, Paris, 2003.
- Se libérer de la matière? Fantasmes autour des nouvelles technologies , Paris, INRA éditions, 2004.
- Faut-il avoir peur de la chimie? , Paris, Seuil, 2005.
- Paul Langevin, Propos d'un physicien engagé: Pour mettre la science au service de tous , Vuibert, 2007
- Matière à penser. Essais d'histoire et de philosophie de la chimie , Paris, Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2008.
- Les vertiges de la technoscience. Façonner le monde atome par atome , Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2009.
- L'Opinion publique et la science. À chacun son ignorance , Paris, Éditions La Découverte, 2013.
- with Isabelle Stengers : Histoire de la chimie , Paris, La Découverte, 1993. ISBN 2-7071-3541-0
- with Isabelle Stengers: 100 mots pour commencer à penser les sciences , Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2003.
- with Jonathan Simon: Chemistry. The impure Science , London, Imperial College Press, 2008.
- with Dorothée Benoit-Browaeys: Fabriquer la vie. Où va la biologie de synthèse? , Seuil, Science Ouverte, 2011.
- with Eva Telkes Klein (Ed.): Emile Meyerson. Lettres françaises , Paris, CNRS édition 2009.
- with Eva Telkes Klein (Ed.): Emile Meyerson. Mélanges. Petites pièces inédites , Paris, Honoré Champion 2011.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vincent, Bernadette (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French science historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beziers |