Académie des technologies

Women in Tech

The “Women in Tech” network brings together young women who are sponsored by a Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France. The network is regularly updated and showcases these inspiring women who want to encourage young women to embark on a career in technology and who are also keen to share their views and experiences with each other and with the academy.  

THE CHATELET
QUESTIONNAIRE

The questionnaire answered by the Women of Tech is a variant of the Proust questionnaire, named not because Marcel Proust got lost in the Paris metro, but in memory of Emilie du Chatelet, a woman of letters, mathematician and physicist, renowned for her translation of Newton's Principia Mathematica and the dissemination of Leibniz's physics work. She was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Bologna Institute. Emilie du Chatelet led a free and fulfilled life during the era of the Enlightenment and published a speech on happiness.

Emilie Du Chatelet

Woman of letters, mathematician and physicist

1706 - 1749