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Pierre Nora
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1931
- Died
- 2025
- Works
- 28
Top works
- Les lieux de mémoire
- Les Français d'Algérie
- Erinnerungsorte Frankreichs
- Présent, nation, mémoire
- Esquisse d'ego-histoire
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Philippines
- Active from
- 1953-05-21
- Active to
- 2025-04-16
Discography
- Nora Aunor Sings1968
- Pledging My Love1970
- Mga Awitin Ng Puso1972
- Lady Guy1974
- The Phenomenal1999
- Habang Panahon2009
- Handog2014
- Mahal2016
- Superstar Ng Buhay Ko2019
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Going deeper with convolutions
· 2015 · cited 32,877x
- Classification of Surgical Complications
· 2004 · cited 28,241x
- Array programming with NumPy
· 2020 · cited 23,475x
- Outline of a Theory of Practice
· 1977 · cited 19,108x
- Testing for a unit root in time series regression
· 1988 · cited 12,664x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1931-11-17 ) 17 November 1931, Paris, France
- Died
- 2 June 2025 (2025-06-02) (aged 93), Paris, France
- Education
- Lycée Carnot
- Occupation
- Historian
- Organizations
- Éditions Gallimard School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
- Known for
- Member of the Académie Française
- Partners
- Gabrielle van Zuylen Anne Sinclair
- Relatives
- Simon Nora (brother)
- Awards
- Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Dan David Prize
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierre Charles Nora ( French: [pjɛʁ ʃaʁl(ə) nɔʁa]; 17 November 1931 – 2 June 2025) was a French historian elected to the Académie Française on 7 June 2001. As editor at Éditions Gallimard, he established the Library of Social Sciences in 1966 and the Library of Histories in 1970. He was director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences from 1977 for four decades. Nora is known for having directed Les Lieux de Mémoire, four volumes focused on places and objects of remembrance which incarnate the national memory of the French, writing a new history (nouvelle histoire).
Early life and education
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