Albert Jacquard
Albert Jacquard was a French geneticist, popularizer of science, essayist and humanist.
He was born in Lyon to a catholic and conservative family from the region of FrancheComt . At the age of nine, he was disfigured after a car accident in which his brother died. In 1943, he earned two baccalaureates in mathematics and philosophy. In 1948, he earned a masters degree in public factory engineering from the French Polytechnical School and joined the French Institute of statistics.
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