Elisabeth Bouchaud

Elisabeth Bouchaud
Born 1 March 1961
Tunis
Nationality French
Fields Physics, Theatre
Alma mater École Centrale Paris
Known for Her work on the morphology of fracture surfaces[1][2]
Influenced Benoit Mandelbrot, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Notable awards Lars Onsager Medal, Louis Ancel Prize, Aniuta Winter-Klein Prize

Elisabeth Bouchaud (born Tibi) is a French physicist, playwright and actress born 1 March 1961. She is a member of Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA), and works at Ecole Superieure de Chimie et Physique de la Ville de Paris. Since 2015, she is also the Director of the Théâtre de la Reine Blanche in Paris.[3]

She has worked in quantitative fractography, establishing some universal fractal properties of fracture surfaces,[4] a subject pioneered by Benoit Mandelbrot.[5] In fact, the term "fractal" itself was coined by Mandelbrot in 1975, based on the Latin frāctus meaning "broken" or "fractured".

A close-up on a crack surface looks very much like this fractal landscape.

Elisabeth Bouchaud suggested that these fractal properties could be understood in terms of the propagation of the crack front in a disordered environment, which is affected by the vicinity of a depinning transition.[6][7]

She was awarded the Louis Ancel Prize,[8] the Onsager Medal,[9] and the Aniuta Winter-Klein Prize.[10]

Literary works

Elisabeth Bouchaud wrote several short stories and five plays. Two of them were presented at the Avignon Festival: A Contre Voix in 1994 and in 2000, and Apatride, la Tragédie de Médée in 2013.[11][12] A Contre Voix was translated into English by Mary Luckhurst and put on at the Grace Theatre, London, in 1994. Her other plays are Les liaisons dangereuses (1989), Musical Box (1996) and De la matière dont les rèves sont faits (2005).[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Elisabeth Bouchaud - Google Scholar Citations". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Bouchaud (2013-04-29). "Physics - Elisabeth Bouchaud". Physics.aps.org. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  3. ↑ "La Reine Blanche". Retrieved 2015-03-01.
  4. ↑ "Researchers redefine the old ‘scratch test’". Denise Brehm, MIT News, June 2, 2011
  5. ↑ Mandelbrot B, Passoja D, Paullay A (1984). "Fractal character of fracture surfaces of metals". Nature 308 (5961): 721–22. Bibcode:1984Natur.308..721M. doi:10.1038/308721a0.
  6. ↑ Bouchaud E (1997). "Scaling properties of cracks". Journal of Physics C 9: 4319–44.
  7. ↑ Bonamy D, Bouchaud E (2011). "Failure of heterogeneous materials: A dynamic phase transition?". Physics Reports 498: 1–44. Bibcode:2011PhR...498....1B. doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2010.07.006.
  8. ↑ "Prix de la SFP". Sfp.in2p3.fr. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  9. ↑ "Onsager professor 2010 - Aktuelt - Institutt for fysikk - NTNU". Ntnu.no. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  10. ↑ "Prix Aniuta Winter-Klein 2013, décerné à Elisabeth Bouchaud". Dsm.cea.fr. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  11. ↑ "Apatride-La tragédie de Médée ***". La Provence. Retrieved 2013-10-16.
  12. ↑ A. J. Boyle (January 2014). Seneca: Medea: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary. Oxford University Press. pp. 140–. ISBN 978-0-19-960208-7.
  13. ↑ "Elisabeth Bouchaud Théàtre". Retrieved 2015-10-13.

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