Étienne Guyon
Étienne Guyon (born March 31, 1935 in Paris ) is a French physicist.
Guyon attended the Lycée Condorcet , studied from 1955 at the École normal supérieure (Paris) (ENS) and received his agrégation under André Guinier in 1959 (and a licentiate in mathematics), where he was then concerned with X-rays. After a short stay in the US, where he dealt with crystal defects with Frederick Seitz , from 1962 he worked in the Laboratory for Solid State Physics in Orsay with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes , who led an internationally known research group for superconductivity and from which he received his doctorate in 1965. Guyon investigated the superconductivity of thin films on surfaces and established contacts with Cambridge, from where he received information on the Josephson effect early on . The group's employees included Alexis Martinet, Guy Deutscher, Jean Paul Burger. He was again on a research stay in the USA with Isadore Rudnick at the University of California, Los Angeles and switched the research area from superconductivity to liquid helium. From 1968 he was a professor at the University of Paris-South and then at the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris (ESPCI), where he founded the Laboratory for Hydrodynamics (HMP, Laboratoire d'hydrodynamique physique) and in 1978 until 1988 headed. There he dealt with superfluidity, dynamics of liquid crystals, soft matter , chaos and turbulence.
He was also involved in the dissemination of natural sciences to the public, chaired the council of the Cité des sciences et de l'industrie and was director of the science museum Palais de la découverte from 1988 to 2000 . From 1990 to 2000 he was director of the ENS. From the 1990s onwards, he dealt with granular matter, among other things. After his retirement in 2000, he continues to research at the HMP of the ESPCI. Guyon also tries to bring physics and engineering mechanics as well as physical chemistry closer together again.
In 1982 he received the Prix Jean Ricard . He also received the Prix Louis Ancel in 1968 and he received the Prix Roberval twice for a popular science book in French (for Matière et matériaux and Granites et fumées ). He is a member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics . He wrote over 300 scientific articles and a number of popular science books. His textbook on hydrodynamics has also been translated into German and English.
His PhD students include Stéphane Roux (ENS Lyon), Élisabeth Charlaix and Marc Fermigier (ESPCI).
Fonts
- with Jean-Pierre, Hulin, Luc Petit: Hydrodynamique physique, Savoirs Actuels, 1991
- German edition: Hydrodynamik, Vieweg 1997
- English edition: Physical Hydrodynamics, Oxford UP 1994 (with Catalin Mitescu)
- with J.-P. Troadec: Du sac de billes au tas de sable, Odile Jacob, 1994
- with J.-C. Deroch, C. Betrencourt: Exploration de la matière, structures et propriétés, De Boeck, 1995
- with J.-P. Hulin: Granites et fumées, un peu d'ordre dans le mélange, Odile Jacob, 1997
- with J.-P. Hulin, L. Petit: Ce que disent les fluides, Belin, 2005
- L'école normal de l'an III, leçons de physique, chimie et d'histoire naturelles, ENS, Rue d'Ulm, 2006
- Matière et matériaux, de quoi est fait le monde?, Belin 2010
- with J.-P. Hulin, D. Bideau: La matière en désordre, CNRS Éditions / EDP Sciences, 2014
Web links
- Encyclopaedia Universalis
- Idref
- Biographical data , Futura Sciences (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview by Guyon at ESPCI on the occasion of the Roberval Prize 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guyon, Etienne |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |