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,與法國最負盛名的研究機構之一的負責人共進午餐的路上,我走過一個頂上有羽毛恐龍的鋸齒狀拱門。這一場景是植物園的侏羅紀燈光秀的一部分,我將在這裏會見巴斯德研究所(Pasteur Institute)所長雅斯敏•貝兒凱德(Yasmine Belkaid)。遠處是美術風格的國家自然歷史博物館,亨利•貝克勒(Henri Becquerel)在1896年發現天然放射性時,注意到鈾鹽使攝影底片變得模糊。