Mathematician Claire Voisin awarded the CNRS 2016 gold medal (CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
(WorldNews France)

(Source: CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Born on March 4, 1962 at Saint-Leu-la-Forêt, near Paris, Claire Voisin joined the science division of the École normale supérieure de Sèvres in 1981. She obtained an agrégation, France`s highest teaching diploma, in mathematics in 1983. Under the supervision of Arnaud Beauville at Université Paris-Sud, she then prepared a PhD thesis, which she defended in 1986. She was immediately recruited by the CNRS, and continued her career first at Orsay and then at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu (CNRS/Université Paris Diderot/UPMC). Temporarily seconded to the Institut des hautes études scientifiques from 2007 to 2009, she also...