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 origi

Stéphane Mallat, professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie des sciences in the Mechanical and Computer Sciences section, receives the CNRS Gold Medal.

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'