Pierre Binétruy

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pierre Binétruy (born August 14, 1955 - April 1, 2017 in Paris ) was a French theoretical physicist .

Career

Binétruy received his PhD in 1980 from Mary K. Gaillard at CERN (Dissertation Theoretical and Phenomenological Aspects of Gauge Theories ), where he was a Fellow, and was then at the University of California, Berkeley , the University of Florida and the University of Chicago . From 1986 he was at the LAPP (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules) in Annecy-le-Vieux . In 1990 he became professor at the University of Paris XI in the Laboratory for Theoretical Physics (from 1999 Professeur de classe exceptionelle) and in 2003 at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot). He was director of the AstroParticle and Cosmology (APC) laboratory in Paris from 2006 to 2013. He was director of the Paris Center for Cosmological Physics (PCCP), which he founded with George Smoot .

At first he dealt with high-energy physics and especially with supersymmetry . From 1997 to 2004 he was director of the European Research Group Supersymmetry. From the 2000s his focus was on gravitation and cosmology as well as on astroparticle physics (relationship of the fundamental elementary particle theories in understanding the early universe, inflation theories, gravitational waves in cosmology, dark energy ).

He was in the Lisa space mission (and in France the driving force behind the engagement in space-based search for gravitational waves) and in the Planck and Euclid missions. From 2008 to 2010 he was in the Fundamental Physics advisory group at ESA . He was also on the European Space Science Committee (ESF), the scientific program committee of the SLAC .

In 1999 he received the Paul Langevin Prize and in 1995 he received the Prix Thibaud. In 1996 he was a Miller Professor at Berkeley. From 1995 to 2003 he headed the Theory of French Physical Society.

He developed the Massive Open Online Course Gravity with George Smoot .

Fonts

  • Supersymmetry: theory, experiment, and cosmology, Oxford UP 2006
  • Editor with R. Schaeffer, Joseph Silk , F. David: The primordial Universe, Les Houches 71, 1999, Springer 2002
  • Editor: Recent advances in field theory: proceedings of the Fourth Annecy Meeting on Theoretical Physics, Annecy-le-Vieux, France, 5-9 March 1990, North Holland 1991
  • Editor with P. Sorba: Conformal Field Theories and related Topics, Annecy-le-Vieux 1988, North Holland 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Binétruy passed away , Paris Center for Cosmological Physics, April 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Binétruy, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1955
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2017
Place of death Paris