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Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-1909), French anthropologist. Levi-Strauss studied law and philosophy at the Sorbonne, Paris, graduating in 1931. In 1935, he was part of a French cultural mission to Brazil, working both as a professor of sociology and with his wife on her anthropological studies. He spent most of the Second World War in New York, USA. He returned to Paris in 1948, where he began publishing his theories on sociology and anthropology. He is considered the founder of modern anthropology, and has received numerous honours worldwide. In 1973, he was elected to the Academie Francaise. Photographed in 1998. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/CARLOS MUNOZ-YAGUE/LOOK AT SCIENCES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)