Serge Berg

Serge Berg (born the July 28th 1923 with Ixelles in Belgium and deceased the May 2nd 2005 with Paris), was a journalist French. Founder of the scientific heading of AFP (Agency France-Press). One of the " pères" scientific journalism in France.

Wire of emigrated parents Russian, Serge Berg is professor of history and geography until 1952, where its perfect knowledge of the Russian language leads it to the service of listenings of AFP. In 1957, it integrates the agency of Moscow and attends the launching of the first artificial satellite of the Earth, Sputnik-1, on October 4th, 1957. The historical event gives birth to in him its true vocation. Of return to Paris, in 1961, it creates the scientific heading of AFP, probably the very first service of this type in an news agency in the world. " My greater passion, it is the discovery of the découverte" , liked to repeat this privileged witness of the great discoveries and inventions of second half of the 20th century. A shared and communicative passion. Before his retirement in 1988, Serge Berg had made his heading a true school of scientific journalism, where passed many eminent journalists. Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, knight of the National order of the merit to the title of the scientific research, Serge Berg was prize winner of several distinctions usually allotted to researchers.

sources: AFP

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