Louis Pasteur (1840) - Chemist and microbiologist, known for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization.
Henri Bergson (1878) - Philosopher, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927 for his philosophical work.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1929) - Philosopher, playwright, and novelist, known for his existentialist works and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, which he declined.
Simone Weil (1928) - Philosopher, mystic, and political activist, known for her philosophical and social writings.
Laurent Schwartz (1934) - Mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1950 for his work on distributions.
Alain Connes (1970) - Mathematician, awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his work on operator algebras and noncommutative geometry.
Jacques Derrida (1952) - Philosopher, known for developing a form of semiotic analysis known as deconstruction.
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1955) - Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1991 for discovering that methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter.
Évariste Galois (1830) - Mathematician, known for his contributions to group theory and the development of Galois theory.
Jean Perrin (1891) - Physicist, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1926 for his work on the discontinuous structure of matter.
