Françoise Masnou-Seeuws is a French physicist, specializing in
ultracold molecules.
Masnou-Seeuws earned a doctorate in physics through
Paris Diderot University
Paris Diderot University, also known as Paris 7 (french: Université Paris Diderot), was a French university located in Paris, France. It was one of the inheritors of the historic University of Paris, which was split into 13 universities in 197 ...
in 1973. Subsequently, she became a director of research for the
French National Centre for Scientific Research, posted to the
Laboratoire Aimé Cotton in Orsay.
In 2006, she received the
Prix Jaffé
The prix Jaffé is a prize of the Institut de France awarded by nomination of the French Academy of Sciences. The award is financially supported by the Hanna Jaff, Jaffé foundation of the Institute.
Presentation
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of the
Institut de France and
French Academy of Sciences
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for her research on photoassociation, a process of
laser-intermediated bonding of
ultracold atoms into molecules. In the same year, she was named a
Fellow of the American Physical Society
The American Physical Society honors members with the designation ''Fellow'' for having made significant accomplishments to the field of physics.
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(APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, "for the development and application of original procedures for high precision calculations of the properties of diatomic molecules and the creation of ultracold molecules by photoassociation of ultracold atoms".
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
French physicists
French women physicists
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research
Fellows of the American Physical Society
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