Jean-Pierre Hansen FRS (born 10 May 1942) is a Luxembourgian chemist and an

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professor of the

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Education

Hansen gained a PhD from

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in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for the

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Career and research

In 1970, Hansen he moved to the

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to do postdoctoral work at

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before moving back to France in 1973 to work as an associate professor at

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. He became a full professor in 1977, and in 1980 moved to Grenoble to work as a visiting scientist at

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. In 1986 he became research director at

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, and in 1987 founded the physics laboratory there. In 1990 the

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awarded him the Grand Prix de l'Etat for his work, and between 1994 and 1997 he worked as a visiting professor at the physical chemistry department of the

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; he moved Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge in 1997 and became Professor of Chemistry. The

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awarded him their Prix Special in 1998, and in 2002 he was elected a

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(FRS). The

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awarded him their first Liquid Matter Prize in 2005, and in 2006 the Royal Society awarded him the

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. In 2013, together with

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he was awarded the Berni J. Alder Prize by the Centre européen de calcul atomique et moléculaire.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hansen, Jean-Pierre 1942 births Living people Paris-Sud University alumni Cornell University alumni Academic staff of the University of Paris Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Academics of the University of Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Luxembourgian chemists Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Chemistry