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1. Pierre Dubois

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   Early Life and Education
   Dubois was born into a modestly affluent family of textile merchants in Lyon. Showing precocious aptitude for abstract thought, he entered the École Polytechnique in Paris in 1906, graduating top of his class in 1908. He pursued doctoral studies at the Sorbonne, where his early research focused on the statistical mechanics of crystal lattices. It was during this period that he developed his characteristic belief that all physical constants were, in fact, merely reflections of the current emotional state of the o…