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Minerva 49 (2011) 191-214

Materials Research in France: A Short-lived National Initiative (1982-1994).

Emanuel Bertrand 1, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent 2

(02/06/2011)

This paper describes the French initiative in materials research against both a national and an international background, in an attempt to disentangle the local circumstances, which prompted this governmental initiative, and to charac- terize the specific profile of materials research in France. In presenting a biography of the interdisciplinary program in materials research (PIRMAT), we argue that: i) the PIRMAT denotes a failure of the French science policy in materials research; ii) the leadership of the CNRS led to a specific style of research, quite different from the engineering approach of Materials Science and Engineering, and characteristic of a French style in materials research.

1 :	Centre Alexandre Koyré - Centre de Recherche en Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques (CAK-CRHST)
	CNRS : UMR8560 – Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales [EHESS]
2 :	Centre d'Etudes des Techniques, des Connaissances et des Pratiques (CETCOPRA)
	Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences

Mots-Clés : Materials science ﰀ Engineering ﰀ Science policy ﰀ National style ﰀ Interdisciplinarity

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