Catherine Bréchignac

Catherine Bréchignac.

Catherine Bréchignac (born June 12, 1946 in Paris ) is a French physicist .

During her studies at the École normal supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses from 1967 to 1971, she received a Maitrise in physics , a Diplôme d'études approfondies in quantum physics . After passing the higher teaching degree in Agrégation for physics in 1971, she was employed at the CNRS in the Aimé Cotton Laboratory in Orsay , where she completed her doctorate in 1977. This was followed by a career as a researcher, during which she took over the management of the Aimé Cotton Laboratory in 1989. She then became Scientific Director of the SPM (Physics & Mathematics) department of the CNRS and, from 1997 to 2000, its Director General. In 2003 she became president of the Institut d'optique (SupOptique) engineering school .

Her research focused mainly on atomic aggregates.

On January 11, 2006, Catherine Bréchignac was appointed chairman of the CNRS . In 2010 she was replaced by Alain Fuchs , even though she was running for another mandate.

In June 2010 she was appointed Secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie des Sciences , d. H. of the French Academy of Sciences, elected; she took office in January 2011.

Awards

• 1991: Prize of the Académie des Sciences
• 1994: CNRS silver medal
• 1997: Corresponding member of the Académie des sciences
• 1998 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2003: Holweck Prize
• 2005: Member of the Académie des sciences
• 2009: Member of the Academia Europaea
• Knight of the Legion of Honor
• Member of the Académie des technologies

Individual evidence

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