Sébastien Balibar
Sébastien Balibar (born October 14, 1947 in Tours ) is a French physicist (experimental low-temperature physics).
Balibar went to school in Tours and studied at the École Polytechnique from 1966 to 1968 . In 1969 he received his DEA degree and in 1971 he received his doctorate (Thèse de troisième cycle) with Albert Libchaber at the École normal supérieure (Paris) (ENS) and in 1976 his habilitation (Thèse de Doctorat). Afterwards he was research director at the laboratory for statistical physics at ENS.
He was visiting professor in Finland, Harvard (as Loeb Lecturer), Konstanz, in Kyoto (1999, 2003) and at the Weizmann Institute.
He is a member of the Académie des Sciences (2011). In 2005 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize for his work on the surfaces of helium crystals, especially their roughening transitions, their quantum dynamics and their instability under tension, for his investigation of cavitation in liquid helium under negative pressure using high amplitude acoustic waves and his early experiments on the quantum theoretical evaporation of superfluid helium 4 . He received the Prix Paul Langevin (1988), the Prix Dargelos of the École Polytechnique, the Prix Brelot (1978), the Prix des trois physiciens and the Prix Jean Ricard . In 2005 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 2009 he received an ERC Advanced Grant. In 1999 he was a Senior Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
Fonts
- with Alain Aspect , Roger Balian , Édouard Brézin and others: Demain, la physique , Ed. Odile Jacob, Paris 2004
- La Pomme et l'atome, Douze histoires de physique contemporaine , Ed. Odile Jacob, Paris 2005
- Je casse de l'eau, et autres rêveries scientifiques , par Ed. Le Pommier, Paris 2008
- Chercheur au quotidien , Ed. du Seuil et Raconter la vie, Paris 2014
- Climat: y voir clair pour agir , Ed. Le Pommier, Paris 2015
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Laudation for the London Prize, pdf ( memento of the original from October 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved July 27, 2020 .
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| SURNAME | Balibar, Sébastien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tours |