Édouard Brézin

Édouard Brezin
Born (1938-12-01) 1 December 1938
Paris, France
Nationality French
Fields Physics
Alma mater École Polytechnique
École des ponts ParisTech

Édouard Brézin (French: [bʁezɛ̃]; born December 1, 1938 Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986.

Brézin studied at École Polytechnique before doing a PhD. He worked at the theory division of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique in Saclay until 1986.

Brezin contributed to the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic physical properties of matter and high energy physics. He was a leader in critical behavior theory and developed methods for distilling testable predictions for critical exponents. In using field theoretic techniques in the study of condensed matter, Brezin helped further modern theories of magnetism and the quantum Hall effect.

Brézin was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences on February 18, 1991, and served as president of the academy in 2005-2006. He also is a foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (since 2003), a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 2002), a foreign member of the Royal Society (since 2006) and a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2003). He is a commander in the French National order of merit[1] and an Officer of the Legion of Honor.[2]

He is Chair of the Cyprus Research and Educational Foundation.[3] He was awarded the 2011 Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics together with John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov.

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References

  1. Decree of May 14, 2004
  2. Decree of December 31, 1999
  3. The Cyprus Institute, CREF

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