The walk to lunch in Paris with the head of one of France’s most prestigious research establishments takes me under a jagged arch topped by feathered dinosaurs. The scene is part of a Jurassic light show at the Jardin des Plantes, a cradle of discovery where I am meeting Yasmine Belkaid, president of the Pasteur Institute. Beyond looms the Beaux-Arts style National Museum of Natural History where Henri Becquerel stumbled upon natural radioactivity in 1896, after noticing how uranium salts fogged a photographic plate.
在巴黎,与法国最负盛名的研究机构之一的负责人共进午餐的路上,我走过一个顶上有羽毛恐龙的锯齿状拱门。这一场景是植物园的侏罗纪灯光秀的一部分,我将在这里会见巴斯德研究所(Pasteur Institute)所长雅斯敏•贝尔凯德(Yasmine Belkaid)。远处是美术风格的国家自然历史博物馆,亨利•贝克勒(Henri Becquerel)在1896年发现天然放射性时,注意到铀盐使摄影底片变得模糊。