UM1 Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni of UM1

• Élie Cartan (1894) - A renowned mathematician known for his contributions to differential geometry and group theory.
• François Jacob (1947) - Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis.
• Jean Dausset (1945) - Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes.
• André-Louis Cholesky (1904) - Known for developing the Cholesky decomposition method in linear algebra.