Jean Painlevé

Born November 20, 1902· Paris, France

† Died July 2, 1989

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Born into a family marked by political distinction-his father twice served as France’s prime minister-Jean Painlevé pursued an unconventional education, abandoning early ambitions for the École Polytechnique after struggling with mathematics, then briefly studying medicine before turning to biology at the Sorbonne’s comparative anatomy laboratory. His formative years at the Roscoff biological stat…

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