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born: 10/18/1859
died: 1/4/1941
born as: Henri-Louis Bergson
nationality: France

French philosopher, the first to elaborate what came to be called a process philosophy, which rejected static values in favor of values of motion, change, and evolution. He was also a master literary stylist, of both academic and popular appeal, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927.