Françoise Brochard-Wyart (born 1944) is a French theoretical physicist of soft matter. Currently, she is a emeritus professor of physical chemistry of Sorbonne University at the Curie Institute in Paris.

Biography

Born in

Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the t ...

, Brochard-Wyart studied at

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from 1964 to 1968 and obtained a degree in physics. Following her degree she studied for a PhD in liquid crystals under the supervision of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. She obtained her PhD in 1974. Following her PhD she went on to study the dynamics of polymers at the Collège de France. In 1986 she was made a professor of physical chemistry at

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. Here she focused her research on phenomena involving mixing and on the physics of

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. In 1991 she joined the Curie Institute and began research on biophysics. She is a member of

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. She has written an autobiographical article titled "A Tour of My Soft Matter Garden: From Shining Globules and Soap Bubbles to Cell Aggregates". She has four children with the Nobel Laureate physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, including the neuroscientist

Claire Wyart Claire Julie Liliane Wyart (born 16 February 1977) is a French neuroscientist and biophysicist, studying the circuits underlying the control of locomotion. She is a chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. Early life Wyart was born into a f ...

Honors and awards

Prix Jean Ricard The prix Jean-Ricard is a prize awarded by the Société française de physique (SFP) to a French physicist for remarkable and original work. Jean Ricard, alumnus of École Polytechnique, engineer École supérieure d'électricité (E.S.E), and me ...

from the French Physical Society (Société française de physique) in 1998. A special mention for the Prix Roberval in 2007 for ''Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena -Droplets, bubbles, pearls and waves'', co-authored with Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and David Quéré.

Publications

* 2009: (with J. Bok & J.Prost) ''De Gennes' Impact in Science'', Imperial College Press, * 2010: (with P.-G. de Gennes & D. Quéré) ''Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena -Droplets, bubbles, pearls and waves'',

References

External links

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