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The Grande médaille is a distinction awarded each year, on an alternating basis, in the disciplines covered by each of the Academy's divisions, to a French or foreign scientist who has made a decisive contribution to the development of science, both through the originalit

French physicist and academician Christophe Salomon has been awarded the prestigious Balzan Prize for his pioneering work using ultra-cold atoms to improve the accuracy of atomic clocks and, consequently, the measurement of time.

The Académie's archives preserve documents divided into different series: records of its academic sessions since 1667, records of prizes it has awarded since the 18th century, a collection of over 18,000 "sealed envelopes" deposited since 1735, as well as scientists' fond

On June 20 and 21, the Académie des sciences and the Académie des technologies organized a high-level symposium focusing on the major challenges of energy: technologies, transitions, sovereignty, decarbonization, industrial and geopolitical perspectives.