Daniel Fournier

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Daniel Fournier (born November 1942 ) is a French physicist specializing in experimental high-energy physics .

At the French CNRS (and its Institut national de physique nucléaire et de physique des particules, IN2P3) he is responsible for the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider and in particular one of the initiators and developers of its electromagnetic calorimeter based on liquid argon. He is at CERN and also teaches at the University of Paris-South .

In 2011 he received the Prix ​​Jean Ricard and in 1993 the silver medal of the CNRS.

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