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Étienne Klein

Étienne Klein
Born (1958-04-01) 1 April 1958 (age 66)
Paris, France
Alma materÉcole Centrale Paris
Era20th-/21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy

Étienne Klein (French: [klɛ̃]; born 1958) is a French physicist and philosopher of science, born in 1958. A graduate of École Centrale Paris, he holds a DEA (Master of Advanced Studies) in theoretical physics, as well as a Ph.D. in philosophy of science and an accreditation to supervise research (HDR).

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Étienne Klein is a Research director at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA).[1] He is currently head of the Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matière (LARSIM), a research laboratory belonging to the CEA and located in Saclay near Paris.[2] He took part in several major projects, such as the adjustment of a method of isotopic separation involving the use of lasers, and the study of a particle accelerator with superconducting cavities. At CERN he was involved in the design of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).[3]

He taught quantum physics and particle physics at Centrale Paris for several years and currently teaches philosophy of science.[4] He is a specialist in the question of time in physics and has written a number of essays on the subject. He is also a member of the Conseil d'analyse de la société, of the conseil scientifique de la Cité des Sciences, of the Conseil de l'Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (OPECST), of the French Academy of Technologies and of the Conseil d'Orientation de l'Institut Diderot.[1] Every Thursday morning he presents a radio chronicle, Le Monde selon Étienne Klein, as well as La Conversation scientifique every Saturday afternoon, on the French public station France Culture.[5][6]

Étienne Klein practises mountain-climbing[7] and other endurance sports.[8]

Plagiarism affairs

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In December 2016, Science magazine, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, reported that Étienne Klein was responsible for plagiarizing the novelist Stefan Zweig and other authors.[9]

In August 2024, French media Arrêt sur images revealed that 88 of the 429 pages of the book adapted from his PhD thesis, L’Unité de la physique (2000), contain plagiarized text by Gerald Holton, Lambros Couloubaritsis and other philosophers.[10]

Chorizo tweet

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On July 22, 2022, Klein tweeted a photo that he presented as an image of Proxima Centuri, the closest star to our solar system, taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. A few days later, he revealed that the photo was actually of a slice of chorizo against a black background. He described his tweet as a "form of amusement" and urged his 92,000 Twitter followers to "be wary of arguments from authority".[11]

Distinctions and awards

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Bibliography

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  • Conversations avec le Sphinx, les paradoxes en physique, 1991
  • Regards sur la matière. Des quanta et des choses, avec Bernard d'Espagnat, 1993
  • Le Temps, 1995
  • Le Temps et sa flèche [actes du colloque], dir. Étienne Klein and Michel Spiro, 1996
  • L’Atome au pied du mur et autres nouvelles, 2000
  • L’Unité de la physique, 2000
  • La Quête de l’unité. L’Aventure de la physique, with Marc Lachièze-Rey, 2000
  • Sous l’atome, les particules
  • La Physique quantique
  • Trésor des sciences : dictionnaire des concepts, co-author (dir. Michel Serres)
  • Moi, U235 noyau radioactif, with Bernard Bonin and Jean-Marc Cavedon, 2001
  • Le temps existe-t-il ?, Collection Les petites pommes du savoir, 2002
  • La science nous menace-t-elle ?, 2003
  • Les Tactiques de Chronos, 2003
  • Petit voyage dans le monde des quanta, 2004
  • Il était sept fois la révolution, Albert Einstein et les autres, 2005
  • Le Temps qui passe, 2006
  • Le facteur temps ne sonne jamais deux fois, 2007
  • Les Secrets de la matière, 2008
  • Galilée et les Indiens. Allons-nous liquider la science ?, 2008
  • Pourquoi je suis devenu chercheur scientifique, 2009
  • Discours sur l’origine de l’univers, 2010
  • La Science en jeu, written with Jean-Michel Besnier, Hervé Le Guyader and Heinz Wismann, 2010
  • Le Small bang des nanotechnologies, 2011
  • Anagrammes renversantes, ou le sens caché du monde, with Jacques Perry-Salkow, 2011
  • Rugby quantique, with Jonny Wilkinson and Jean Illiopoulos, 2011
  • D'où viennent les idées (scientifiques)?, 2013
  • En cherchant Majorana. Le physicien absolu, 02/2015
  • Y a-t-il eu un instant zéro ?, 03/2015
  • Le pays qu'habitait Albert Einstein, 2016
  • Tout n'est pas relatif, 2017
  • Sauvons le progrès, dialogue avec Denis Lafay, 2017
  • Matière à contredire, essai de philo-physique, 2018
  • Le goût du vrai, 2020

Filmography

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References

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  1. ^ a b Centre Saclay CEA
  2. ^ Laboratoire des Recherches sur les Sciences de la Matière (LARSIM)
  3. ^ « Carte blanche à Étienne Klein », Futura-Sciences
  4. ^ « Cours d'Étienne Klein en vidéo »
  5. ^ « Le Monde selon Étienne Klein, 2012-2013 »
  6. ^ "La Conversation scientifique : Podcast et réécoute sur France Culture".
  7. ^ « Étienne Klein, libido sciendi, Portrait d'Étienne Klein diffusé sur universcience.tv du 22/01 au 25/02/2010.. »
  8. ^ Résultats de l’Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (cherchez Klein et non pas Étienne Klein)
  9. ^ "Popular French physicist accused of plagiarizing colleagues and famous writers". 2016-12-07.
  10. ^ Guémart, Loris; Abbiateci, Jean (2024-08-05). "Étienne Klein, une thèse constellée de plagiats". Arrêt sur images.
  11. ^ Alund, Natalie Neysa (August 5, 2022). "Spanish meat or space star? Scientist's tweet shot of 'distant star' is actually slice of chorizo". USA Today. Retrieved August 6, 2022.
  12. ^ Les prix de la SFP
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