All articles starting with M

Michel Aoun (ميشال نعيم عون)

Michel Aoun (ميشال نعيم عون), Lebanese Maronite general and politician, army commander 1984, transitional premier 1988–1990, Free Patriotic Movement founder, and President of Lebanon 2016–2022.

Michel Armand (born 1946) is a French electrochemist known for the rocking-chair battery concept behind lithium-ion cells and for pioneering solid polymer electrolytes; he leads polymer electrolyte research at CIC energiGUNE in Spain.

Michel Attal

Michel Attal is a French hematologist and professor at Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, known for trials establishing transplantation and lenalidomide maintenance as standard myeloma treatment.

Michel Aubier

Michel Aubier, born 1947, is a French pulmonologist and member of the Académie nationale de médecine known for research on severe asthma, COPD, and air pollution.

Michel B. Tolédano

Michel B. Tolédano, also written Michel B. Toledano, is a French molecular biologist who leads the Oxidative Stress and Cancer Laboratory at the CEA and discovered sulfiredoxin.

Michel Balinski

Michel Balinski (1933–2019) was a Swiss-born mathematician working in combinatorics, apportionment, and voting theory, known for Balinski's theorem, the Balinski–Young apportionment theory, and majority judgment.

Michel Barnier

Michel Barnier (born 1951, La Tronche, France) is a Gaullist-conservative politician, four-time French minister, twice European Commissioner, EU chief Brexit negotiator 2016-2020, and French Prime Minister from 5 September to 4 December 2024, when a no-confidence vote toppled his government.

Michel Baudouin

Michel Baudouin was a French Jesuit missionary to the Choctaw people of colonial Louisiana, and superior of the Louisiana missions, who died at New Orleans in 1768.

Michel Baudry

Michel Baudry is a French-born American neuroscientist at Western University of Health Sciences, known for the calpain theory of memory proposed with Gary Lynch in the early 1980s.

Oct 22, 2026

Michel Bégon

Michel Bégon (1638–1710) was a French colonial administrator under Louis XIV who served as intendant of the Windward Islands, Saint-Domingue, and Rochefort, and helped draft the Code noir.

Oct 21, 2026

Michel Bibard

Michel Bibard (born 1958, Amboise) is a French former defender; FC Nantes 1976–85, PSG 1985–91, four French titles, 1984 Olympic football gold, 6 France caps, 1986 World Cup third place.

Michel Bornens

Michel Bornens (1938–2022) was a French cell biologist and CNRS research director who made the centrosome a central research object, working at Institut Pasteur and Institut Curie.

Michel Boudart

Michel Boudart (1924–2012) was a Belgian-born chemical engineer at Stanford and a leading authority on heterogeneous catalysis, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975.

Michel Bouvier (carpenter)

Michel Bouvier (1792-1874), Pont-Saint-Esprit-born French cabinetmaker of Philadelphia, distinct from the Quebec genealogical Bouviers; served Joseph Bonaparte and Girard, sold furniture to the White House in 1825, and founded the American Bouvier family of Jacqueline Kennedy.

Michel Brune

Michel Brune (born 1964) is a French experimental physicist and CNRS Research Director who co-leads the cavity QED team at Laboratoire Kastler Brossel in Paris.

Michel Brunet (paleontologist)

Michel Brunet, born 1940, is a French paleontologist at the University of Poitiers and Collège de France known for discovering the 7-million-year-old hominid Toumaï in Chad.

Michel Butor

Michel Butor (1926–2016) was a French novelist, essayist, and poet associated with the nouveau roman, known for La Modification, winner of the 1957 Prix Renaudot.

Michel C. Milinkovitch

Michel C. Milinkovitch is an evolutionary biologist, professor of genetics and evolution at the University of Geneva, known for showing that crocodile head scales form by physical self-organization.

Sep 20, 2026

Michel C. Nussenzweig

Michel C. Nussenzweig, born 1955, is an immunologist who heads the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology at Rockefeller University, known for HIV-1 antibody therapies tested in clinical trials.

Michel Chasles

Michel Chasles (1793–1880) was a French mathematician who led the nineteenth-century revival of synthetic geometry through his 1837 Aperçu historique, winning the Copley Medal in 1865.

Michel Che

Michel Che (1941–2019) was a French chemist who originated the concept of molecular surface reactivity in heterogeneous catalysis, using electron spin resonance to study solid surfaces.

Oct 22, 2026

Michel Colombe

Michel Colombe (c. 1430 – c. 1512) was a French sculptor of the late Gothic Loire Valley style, known for the tomb of François II of Brittany in Nantes Cathedral.

Michel D. Ferrari

Michel D. Ferrari, also known as MD Ferrari, is a Dutch neurologist born in 1954 who identified the first migraine gene and led key triptan and CGRP treatment trials.

Michel de Certeau

Michel de Certeau (1925–1986), French Jesuit historian and cultural theorist of mysticism, author of The Practice of Everyday Life, known for the strategy/tactics distinction and his critique of Foucault and Bourdieu.

Michel de Ghelderode

Michel de Ghelderode, born Adémar Martens, was a Belgian dramatist who wrote some 80 plays in French, including Escurial and Barabbas, and found worldwide fame in the 1950s.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French Renaissance essayist, author of the Essais (1580), inventor of the essay genre; known for Que sais-je skepticism, three-book structure, and Bordeaux mayoralty.

Michel della Negra

Michel della Negra, born 1942, is a French experimental particle physicist who took part in the W and Z boson discovery at CERN and the Higgs boson discovery.

Michel Desjardins

Michel Desjardins is a Canadian cell biologist and professeur titulaire at Université de Montréal, known for research on phagocytosis and for showing that the immune system may drive Parkinson's disease.