Edouard Brézin#


Edouard Brézin
Membership Number:2238
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2004
Main Country of Residence:FRANCE




Present and Previous Positions
  • 1991 Professor at the 'Institut Universitaire de France
  • Since 1986 Professor at Université Paris 6, Laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure
  • 1986 - 1991 Director of the Department of Physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure
  • 1974 - 2004 Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique
  • 1963 - 1986 Member of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in Saclay

Fields of Scholarship
  • Critical behavior theory
  • Macroscopic physical properties of matter
  • Theory of magnetism
  • Quantum Hall effect
  • High energy physics
  • Statistical physics

Honours and Awards
  • 1991 Member of the French Academy of Sciences (President of the academy in 2005 - 2006)
  • 2003 Foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 Member of the Academia Europaea
  • 2006 Foreign member of the Royal Society
  • Commander in the French National order of merit
  • Officer of the Legion of Honor
  • 2004 Institute of Physics President's Medal
  • 2011 Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (together with John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov)


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