| Birth Day | June 11, 1945 |
| Birth Place | Egypt |
| Age | 75 YEARS OLD |
| Died On | Apr 29, 2012 (age 66) |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
French Inventor of the smart card that made everything from modern driver's licenses to credit cards to mobile phone SIMs possible.
He worked as a clerk and then moved into journalism.
He received little international recognition for embedding microchips in cards, but it made him a national hero in France.
He married his wife Stephany Stolin in 1976. They had two daughters, Marianne and Julia.
He was a big Woody Allen fan, and he code-named his smart card project TMR after the film Take the Money and Run from 1969.
