The French physicist Christian Colliex (b. 1944) is known for his pioneering work on the use of
electron energy loss spectroscopy
In electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) a material is exposed to a beam of electrons with a known, narrow range of kinetic energies. Some of the electrons will undergo inelastic scattering, which means that they lose energy and have their pa ...
(EELS) in
transmission electron microscopy
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is a microscopy technique in which a beam of electrons is transmitted through a specimen to form an image. The specimen is most often an ultrathin section less than 100 nm thick or a suspension on a g ...
.
Born in 1944, Colliex graduated from the
École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris in 1965 and received his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics in 1970 from the
CNRS Laboratoire de physique des solides, Orsay. He is now CNRS Research Director at the Solid State Physics laboratory in Orsay, head of the Electron Microscopy group. From 2007 to 2010 he served as President of the
International Federation of the Societies for Microscopy (IFSM). He won the 2008
Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize
The Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize is a major European prize for Physics awarded jointly every year by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Société Française de Physique (SFP). It is one of the four Grand Prix of the SFP and one of ...
.
Christian Colliex is awarded Hollweck Prize 2009
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See also
* Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize
The Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize is a major European prize for Physics awarded jointly every year by the British Institute of Physics (IOP) and the Société Française de Physique (SFP). It is one of the four Grand Prix of the SFP and one of ...
References
External links
International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
Christian Colliex: Adventures with atoms and molecules
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1944 births
Living people
Microscopists
20th-century French physicists
Presidents of the International Federation of Societies for Microscopy
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research