Bernard Sadoulet (born 23 April 1944 in

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) is a French physicist. Sadoulet studied from 1963 to 1965 at the

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and received his doctorate in 1971 at

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

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. From 1966 to 1973 he worked at

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and from 1976 at

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. He was involved in the design of the UA1 detector at CERN. In the 1990s and 2000s, he was engaged in the search for

dark matter Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not ab ...

in the form of

WIMPs Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) are hypothetical particles that are one of the proposed candidates for dark matter. There exists no formal definition of a WIMP, but broadly, a WIMP is a new elementary particle which interacts via gra ...

. He developed cryogenic detectors to discover these WIMPs through the

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s they generated by collisions in crystals. Specifically, he initiated the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiments at the

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in Minnesota with

Blas Cabrera Navarro Blas Cabrera Navarro (born September 21, 1946 in Paris, France) is a Stanley G. Wojcicki Professor of Physics at Stanford University best known for his experiment in search of magnetic monopoles. He is the son of Spanish physicist Nicolás Cabrer ...

. In 2013 he received the

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with Blas Cabrera. Sadoulet is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2012 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Since 1985 he is a professor at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. There from 1989 to 2001 he was director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics. He is currently the director of the

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Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPA). His doctoral students include Vuk Mandic.

Selected publications

* with

Joel Primack Joel R. Primack (born July 14, 1945) is a professor of physics and astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a member of the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics. Primack received his A.B. from Princeton University in ...

, D. Seckel: ''Detection of Cosmic Dark Matter'', Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part Sci., Vol. 38, 1988, pp. 751–807

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadoulet, Bernard French physicists University of Paris alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 1944 births Living people People associated with CERN École Polytechnique alumni