![]() ![]() After the award of the degree from Université Paris-Sud XI in Orsay in 1979 she continued to work towards a doctorate supervised by John Coates who had been appointed to a professorship there in 1978. ![]() She was appointed as a research assistant at Pierre et Marie Curie University in Paris in 1978 she worked towards her Thèse de 3ème cycle, advised by Georges Poitou. Perrin-Riou completed her undergraduate studies in 1977 and began to undertake research. The small-scale, personal atmosphere was well suited to Perrin-Riou, and she found that she liked to delve deeply into subjects. Her class was very small, consisting of only twenty other women with whom she took all her classes. In 1974 Perrin-Riou entered the École Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles which is now part of the École Normale d'Ulm :. ![]() From that time on, in addition to outstanding performances in all her high school subjects, she discovered the fascination of mathematics. Bernadette's two sisters became physicists, but she was turned on to mathematics by an inspiring teacher, Pascal Monsellier, when she was studying at the Lycée. The family provided a highly academic environment in which all three girls quickly developed a love of science. It was in Neuilly-sur-Seine that Bernadette and her two sisters were brought up. ![]() Both Perrin-Riou's parents had been born in Les Vans but, her mother being a physicist and her father a chemist working in Paris, the family moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, within the Paris area. Biography Bernadette Perrin-Riou was born in Les Vans, a small town about 75 km northwest of Avignon. ![]()
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