Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
Bernard d’Espagnat
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
Espagnat, Bernard d' Espagnat, Bernard d'
Quizzes
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law
Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Philosophy 101
Related Questions
Read Next
Highway Night Traffic Portland, drive, driving, car, automobile.
What's the Difference Between Speed and Velocity?
Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. Statue
Philosophers to Know, Part I
Sydney Opera House, Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia.
Why New York Is Called "The Big Apple" and How 8 Other Famous Cities Got Their Nicknames
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher. Print published in London, 1812. Profile portrait surrounded by Ouroboros ancient Egyptian-Greek symbolic serpent with tail in mouth devouring itself representing unity of material and spiritual in eternal...
Philosophers to Know, Part II
Extension of the Louvre, Paris, designed in the Second Empire style by L.-T.-J. Visconti and Hector Lefuel, 1852-57
10 Places in (and around) Paris
Discover
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
Remarkable new details of Pluto's largest moon Charon are revealed in this image from New Horizons' Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taken late on July 13, 2015 from a distance of 289,000 miles
Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?
King Cobra snake in Malaysia. (reptile)
9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson
Vietnam War Timeline
Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece
Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents
Ice Sledge Hockey, Hockey Canada Cup, USA (left) vs Canada, 2009. UBC Thunderbird Arena, Vancouver, BC, competition site for Olympic ice hockey and Paralympic ice sledge hockey. Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Vancouver Olympics
10 Best Hockey Players of All Time

Bernard d’Espagnat: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Bernard-dEspagnat
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born August 22, 1921 • France
Died August 1, 2015 (aged 93) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Templeton Prize (2009)

Photos

Espagnat, Bernard d'
Espagnat, Bernard d'
See All Images →
Ernst Mach
Austrian physicist
Jean Buridan
French philosopher and scientist
Mme du Châtelet, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist; in a private collection
Gabrielle-Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, marquise du Châtelet
French scientist and philosopher
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Erwin Schrödinger
Erwin Schrödinger
Austrian physicist
Norman Robert Campbell
British physicist and philosopher
Albert Of Saxony
German philosopher
Johann Lambert, detail of a lithograph by Gottfried Englemann, after a portrait by Pierre-Roch Vigneron
Johann Heinrich Lambert
Swiss-German scientist and philosopher
Henrik Steffens
German philosopher and physicist
Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor
Canadian philosopher
Jean Vanier
Swiss-born social activist, theologian, and philosopher
Paul Davies
British physicist and astrobiologist
Martin Rees
Martin Rees
British cosmologist and astrophysicist
Ian Barbour
American theologian and physicist
Polkinghorne, John
John Polkinghorne
English physicist and priest
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson
American physicist
Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek
American physicist
Holmes Rolston III
American philosopher and theologian

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
Physics and Natural Law
Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Philosophy 101
Michael Faraday (L) English physicist and chemist (electromagnetism) and John Frederic Daniell (R) British chemist and meteorologist who invented the Daniell cell.
Faces of Science