Denis Jérome

Denis Jérome (* 1939 ) is a French physicist best known for discovering organic superconductors .

Jérome received his doctorate in the laboratory of Anatole Abragam in 1965 at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay (on the metal-insulator transition in phosphorus-doped silicon) and was a post-doctoral student at Harvard and the University of California, San Diego with Walter Kohn (where he worked on the transition to exciton phases in semiconductors under high pressures). From 1967 he worked for the CNRS at the Laboratory for Solid State Physics in Orsay, became Maitre de Recherche in 1974 and Research Director of the CNRS in 1980. In 1967 he was the founder of the group for high-pressure investigation of metals and alloys and the group for low-dimensional molecular conductors. In 2004 he retired.

In 1979 he and Klaus Bechgaard discovered the first organic superconductors. They form quasi-one-dimensional conductors and Jérome, who examined them using NMR spectroscopy , among other things , found in them signs of deviations in the electron behavior of Landau-Fermi liquids ( Luttinger liquids ).

Jérome has been a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1990 and a full member since 2005 . He was editor of the Journal de Physique and the resulting European Physical Journal B. From 2004 to 2007 he was editor-in-chief of Europhysics Letters.

Publications

• with HJ Schulz Organic conductors and superconductors , Advances in Physics, Volume 31, 1990, pp. 299-490
• The physics of organic superconductors , Science, Volume 252, 1991, 1509
• with C. Bourbonnais One dimensional conductors , Physics World, 1998, No. 11, 41-45
• with Dardel u. a. Possible observation of a Luttinger-liquid behavior from photoemission spectroscopy in one-dimensional organic conductors , Europhysics Letters, 24, 1996, 687-692
• with Klaus Bechgaard Organic Superconductors , Scientific American July 1982

Web links

• Academie Science website , with CV