Bernard Barbara
Bernard Barbara (born May 7, 1942 in Tunisia ) is a French experimental physicist who deals with the physics of magnetism.
Barbara went to France to study physics in 1961. He is Research Director at the “Laboratoire Louis Néel” of the CNRS in Grenoble .
In 2008 he received the Gentner-Kastler Prize for "groundbreaking contributions to the explanation of the magnetism of solids, nanostructures and molecules", in particular his investigations into the macroscopic quantum tunneling of magnetic domain walls and the quantum dynamics of magnetic molecules. In 2008 he received the Blaise Pascal Medal . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .
Web links
- Gentner-Kastler-Prize 2008. dpg.de
- Literature by and about Bernard Barbara in the catalog of the German National Library
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| SURNAME | Barbara, Bernard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunisia |