Jean-Pierre Hansen
FRS (born 10 May 1942) is a Luxembourgian chemist and an
emeritus
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professor of the
University of Cambridge
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
.
Education
Hansen gained a PhD from
Paris-Sud 11 University
Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...
in 1969, the same year working as a staff scientist for the
French National Centre for Scientific Research
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
.
Career and research
In 1970, Hansen he moved to the
United States
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to do postdoctoral work at
Cornell University
Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to teach an ...
before moving back to France in 1973 to work as an associate professor at
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
.
He became a full professor in 1977, and in 1980 moved to Grenoble to work as a visiting scientist at
Institut Laue-Langevin
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In some countries, institutes can ...
.
In 1986 he became research director at
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...
, and in 1987 founded the physics laboratory there.
In 1990 the
French Academy of Sciences
The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV of France, Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific me ...
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
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
; he moved
Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge in 1997 and became Professor of Chemistry.
The
Société Française de Physique
The Société Française de Physique (SFP), or the French Physical Society, is the main professional society of French physicists. It was founded in 1873 by Charles Joseph d'Almeida.
History
The French Physical Society is a state-approved non- ...
awarded him their Prix Special in 1998, and in 2002 he was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
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(FRS). The
European Physical Society
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awarded him their first Liquid Matter Prize in 2005, and in 2006 the Royal Society awarded him the
Rumford Medal
The Rumford Medal is an award bestowed by Britain's Royal Society every alternating year for "an outstandingly important recent discovery in the field of thermal or optical properties of matter made by a scientist working in Europe".
First awar ...
.
In 2013, together with
Herman Berendsen
Herman Johan Christiaan Berendsen (22 September 1934 – 7 October 2019) was a Dutch chemist. He was a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Groningen from 1967 to 1999.
Career
Berendsen was born on 22 September 1934 in Apeldoorn. I ...
he was awarded the
Berni J. Alder Prize by the
Centre européen de calcul atomique et moléculaire.
References
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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