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French historian and publisher (1931–2025)

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
balladopmpop

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
2
Total plays
2

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Going deeper with convolutions

    · 2015 · cited 32,877x

  2. Classification of Surgical Complications

    · 2004 · cited 28,241x

  3. Array programming with NumPy

    · 2020 · cited 23,475x

  4. Outline of a Theory of Practice

    · 1977 · cited 19,108x

  5. 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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pierre Nora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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