French physicist. She is an Officer of the Légion dhonneur, President of the International Council for Science and former president of the CNRS ("National Centre for Scientific Research"), Europes largest scientific body. As president of the CNRS, she was responsible for 25,000 employees, 12,000 of whom were researchers, and a budget of 2.42 billion Euros. Link to Wikipedia biography
Brchignac Catherine was born on Wednesday, June 12, 1946 in Paris , France