Abstract

France's giant basic research agency, the CNRS, may soon have a new leader. The 3-year term of its current director-general, physicist Catherine Bréchignac, expired 18 July. But as Science went to press, the government had yet to decide whether to renew her mandate. The holdup is due to a disagreement between French President Jacques Chirac, who wants to keep Bréchignac, and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who wants to dump her, according to the daily Le Figaro. If Bréchignac goes, potential replacements include the directors of two research centers in the Paris suburbs: biologist Pierre Tambourin, head of the GENOPOLE research complex in Evry, and mathematician Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, chief of the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies in Bures-sur-Yvette. A decision is expected by early August.

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