Emmanuel Desurvire (born 1955) is a French researcher and writer. He is the recipient of 2007

John Tyndall Award The John Tyndall Award is given to the "individual who has made pioneering, highly significant, or continuing technical or leadership contributions to fiber optics technology". The award is named after John Tyndall (1820-1893), who demonstrated ...

Early life

Desurvire was born in 1955, in

Boulogne Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...

, France to Raymond Desurvire, an aircraft engineer and Marcelle Desurvire, a

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

. Desurvire attended

University of Paris , image_name = Coat of arms of the University of Paris.svg , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of Arms , latin_name = Universitas magistrorum et scholarium Parisiensis , motto = ''Hic et ubique terrarum'' (Latin) , mottoeng = Here and a ...

where he received his M.S. degree in theoretical physics in 1981 and

University of Nice A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the ...

, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1983.

Career

In 2005, he was awarded with the William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award. In 2007, he received

for his contributions in the development of

Erbium-doped fiber amplifier An optical amplifier is a device that amplifies an optical signal directly, without the need to first convert it to an electrical signal. An optical amplifier may be thought of as a laser without an optical cavity, or one in which feedback from ...

Awards

* 2007:

References

1955 births Living people People from Boulogne-sur-Mer University of Paris alumni Côte d'Azur University alumni 20th-century French male writers {{France-engineer-stub