Elisabeth Bouchaud (born Tibi) is a French

physicist A physicist is a scientist who specializes in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe. Physicists generally are interested in the root or ultimate cau ...

, playwright and

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born 1 March 1961. She is a member of

Commissariat à l'énergie atomique The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission or CEA (French: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives), is a French public government-funded research organisation in the areas of energy, defense and securit ...

(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. She has worked in quantitative fractography, establishing some ''universal'' fractal properties of fracture surfaces, a subject pioneered by Benoit Mandelbrot. In fact, the term "fractal" itself was coined by Mandelbrot in 1975, based on the Latin frāctus meaning "broken" or "fractured". Elisabeth Bouchaud suggested that these fractal properties could be understood in terms of the

propagation Propagation can refer to: * Chain propagation in a chemical reaction mechanism *Crack propagation, the growth of a crack during the fracture of materials * Propaganda, non-objective information used to further an agenda * Reproduction, and other fo ...

of the crack front in a disordered environment, which is affected by the vicinity of a depinning transition. She was awarded the Louis Ancel Prize, the

Onsager Medal The Onsager Medal (''Onsagermedaljen'') is a scholastic presentation awarded to researchers in one or more subject areas of chemistry, physics or mathematics. The medal is awarded in memory of Lars Onsager who received Nobel Prize in Chemistry i ...

, and the Aniuta Winter-Klein Prize.

Literary works

Elisabeth Bouchaud wrote several short stories and plays. Two plays of them were presented at the

Avignon Festival The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vila ...

: ''A Contre Voix'' in 1994 and in 2000, and ''Apatride, la Tragédie de

Médée ''Médée'' is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Pierre Corneille in 1635. Summary The heroine of the play is the sorceress Médée. After Médée gives Jason twin boys, Jason leaves her for Creusa. Médée ...

'' in 2013. ''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), ''De la matière dont les rèves sont faits'' (2005) and ''Puzzle'' (2015), a stage adaptation of ''

Puzzle of a Downfall Child ''Puzzle of a Downfall Child'' is a 1970 American drama film directed by Jerry Schatzberg and starring Faye Dunaway, Barry Morse, Viveca Lindfors, Roy Scheider, and Barry Primus. Plot A beautiful but disturbed young woman lives alone at a beach ...

'' by

Jerry Schatzberg Jerry Schatzberg (born June 26, 1927) is an American photographer and film director. Career Schatzberg was born to a Jewish family of furriers and grew up in the Bronx. He photographed for magazines such as ''Vogue'', '' Esquire'' and '' McCalls ...

, put on at the theatre ''La Reine Blanche'' in 2017.

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