Pierre Duhem (1861–1916) was a French physicist and historian and philosopher of science. One of his great works was to return to the sources and see that the Scholastics of the Middle Ages were not scientifically illiterate, but instead had provided crucial intellectual development that allowed for Galilean revolution.

Fr. Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) was a scholar of the life and work of Pierre Duhem. Like Duhem, Jaki took a strong view of the essential separation between philosophy and modern science, going so far as to assert that there could be no relation between the two.
Following the death of Fr. Jaki earlier this year, the Duhem Society was formed to study and promulgate the works of these two philosophers of science. At the moment, the society has need of French translators interested in philosophy of science to translate some of their works into English. If anyone in the Dead Philosophers Society is looking for a way to contribute to philosophy of science, and can read French, this maybe be it!