Gérard Toulouse
Gérard Marie Robert Toulouse (born September 4, 1939 in Vattot-sur-Mer , Département Seine-Maritime ) is a French physicist .
career
Toulouse studied from 1959 at the elite university École normal supérieure (ENS) in Paris with the Agrégation in 1963 in physics. He then did his military service at the École polytechnique and from 1965 worked as a scientist at the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), first until 1973 in the laboratory for solid-state physics in Orsay . In 1968 he received his doctorate ( Thèse de Doctorat d'État ). As a post-doctoral student , he was at the University of California at San Diego from 1969 to 1971 . From 1976 he worked at the Laboratoire de physique of the ENS and from 1978 to 1980 he taught as Maître de Conferences at the École polytechnique.
In 1969 he received the bronze medal of the CNRS, in 1976 the Prix Paul Langevin , in 1979 the Prix Triossi of the Académie des sciences , 1983 the Holweck Prize of the Institute of Physics , in 1989 the Grand Prix des Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) and in 1999 the Cecil Powell Medal from the European Physical Society (EPS).
Toulouse deals with statistical physics, including the theory of phase transitions and the Kondo effect , topological classification of defects in condensed matter, theory of frustrated and disordered phenomena, for example spin glasses and neural networks . He also published on ethics in the sciences.
He has been a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences since 1990. From 1996 to 2001 he was a member of their committee for international relations. From 2003 he was a member of the European Academy of Sciences and its vice-president from 2004 to 2010. In 2000 he was a founding member of the Académie des technologies . He has been an external member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 1996 . From 1999 to 2010 he was President of the Committee for Natural Sciences of the French UNESCO Commission and from 1998 to 2010 Vice-President of the French section of the Pugwash Conference . In 1990 he was a founding member of the Commission des droits de l'Homme de la Société française de physique (SFP) .
From 1987 to 1996 he was co-editor of Reviews of Modern Physics .
Fonts
- with Pierre Pfeuty: Introduction to the Renormalization Group and to Critical Phenomena , Wiley 1977 (French original 1975 published by Presses universitaire de Grenoble)
- Biology and computation: a physicist's choice , World Scientific 1994
- Regards sur l'éthique des sciences , Hachette-Littératures 1998
- with Lydie Koch-Miramond: Les scientifiques et les droits de l'Homme , Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 2003
- with Guillemette de Véricourt: Source éthique pour les sciences? , Editions Milan 2005
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Toulouse, Gérard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toulouse, Gérard Marie Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vattot-sur-Mer , Seine-Maritime department |