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Published online 9 July 2008 | Nature 454, 143 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454143a
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Researcher battles CNRS reforms
Medal winner rallies French scientists.
The French are not unaccustomed to anti-establishment protest, but the latest revolt against government reform is headed by a heroine as unlikely as Joan of Arc.
Claire Lemercier, a 31-year-old researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, seemingly appeared from nowhere to help spearhead a movement that last week forced key concessions to a major government reform of the CNRS, Europe's largest basic-research agency.
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