The ''prix Paul-Langevin'' is a prize created in 1956 and named in honor of

Paul Langevin Paul Langevin (; ; 23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the ''Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes'', an ant ...

. It has been awarded each year since 1957 by 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- ...

'' (SFP). The prize honors French physicists for work in theoretical physics. The ''prix Paul Langevin'' should not be confused with the ', which is a prize awarded in mathematics, physics, chemistry, or biology by the ''Académie des sciences''.

Recipients

* 1957 Yves Ayant * 1958

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* 1959

Roland Omnès Roland Omnès (born 18 February 1931), is the author of several books which aim to give non-scientists the information required to understand quantum mechanics from an everyday standpoint. Biography Omnès is currently Professor Emeritus of Th ...

* 1960

Philippe Nozières Philippe Pierre Gaston François Nozières (12 April 1932 – 15 June 2022) was a French physicist working at Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France. He was born on 12 April 1932 in Paris and died on 15 June 2022, aged 90. Education In 19 ...

* 1961 Cyrano de Dominicis * 1962

Jacques Villain Jacques Villain (; 13 March 1934 – 12 June 2022) was a French physicist. He received his PhD at the École normale supérieure, did research at the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, held, from 1984 to 1988, the position of a director at the J� ...

* 1963

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (; born 1 April 1933) is a French physicist. He shared the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics with Steven Chu and William Daniel Phillips for research in methods of laser cooling and trapping atoms. Currently he is still an activ ...

* 1964 Marcel Froissart * 1965 Robert Arvieu * 1966

Roger Balian Roger Balian (born 18 January 1933) is a French-Armenian physicist who has worked on quantum field theory, quantum thermodynamics, and theory of measurement. Balian is a member of French Académie des sciences (Academy of Sciences). His importan ...

* 1967 Jean Lascoux * 1968 Émile Daniel * 1969

Jean Ginibre Jean Ginibre (4 March 1938 — 26 March 2020) was a French mathematical physicist. He is known for his contributions to random matrix theory (see circular law), statistical mechanics (see FKG inequality, Ginibre inequality), and partial diffe ...

* 1970 Daniel Bessis * 1971

Loup Verlet Loup Verlet (; 24 May 1931 – 13 June 2019) was a French physicist who pioneered the computer simulation of molecular dynamics models. In a famous 1967 paper he used what is now known as Verlet integration (a method for the numerical integration ...

* 1972

Claude Itzykson Claude Georges Itzykson, (11 April 1938 – 22 May 1995) was a French theoretical physicist who worked in quantum field theory and statistical mechanics. Biography Separated from his parents by World War II, his father was taken to a Na ...

* 1973

André Neveu André Neveu (; born 28 August 1946) is a French physicist working on string theory and quantum field theory who coinvented the Neveu–Schwarz algebra and the Gross–Neveu model. Biography Neveu studied in Paris at the École Normale Supér ...

* 1974

Édouard Brézin Édouard Brézin (; born 1 December 1938 Paris) is a French theoretical physicist. He is professor at Université Paris 6, working at the laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure since 1986. Biography Brézin ...

* 1975

Dominique Vautherin Dominique Vautherin (October 30, 1941, Bois-Colombes – December 7, 2000, Paris) was a French theoretical physicist, specializing in nuclear physics. Education and career Dominique Vautherin studied from 1961 to 1963 at the École polytechnique a ...

* 1976 Gérard Toulouse * 1977

Jean Zinn-Justin Jean Zinn-Justin (born 10 July 1943 in Berlin) is a French theoretical physicist. Biography Zinn-Justin was educated in physics (undergraduate 1964) at the École Polytechnique, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at Orsay, (Ph.D. 1968 ...

* 1978

Jean Iliopoulos John (Jean) Iliopoulos (Greek: Ιωάννης Ηλιόπουλος; 1940, Kalamata, Greece) is a Greek physicist. He is the first person to present the Standard Model of particle physics in a single report. He is best known for his prediction of ...

* 1979

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* 1980

Roland Seneor Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...

and

Jacques Magnen Ancient and noble French family names, Jacques, Jacq, or James are believed to originate from the Middle Ages in the historic northwest Brittany region in France, and have since spread around the world over the centuries. To date, there are over ...

* 1981

Yves Pomeau Yves Pomeau, born in 1942, is a French mathematician and physicist, emeritus research director at the CNRS and corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences. He was one of the founders of thLaboratoire de Physique Statistique, École No ...

* 1982

Pierre Fayet Pierre Fayet (born 4 December 1949) is a French theoretical physicist. Biography Pierre Fayet studied at the École normale supérieure, worked from 1977 to 1979 at Caltech, then at CERN. Currently research director at the CNRS, he works at the ...

* 1983 Serge Aubry * 1984

Thibault Damour Thibault Damour (; born 7 February 1951) is a French physicist. He was a permanent professor in theoretical physics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1989 to 2022. Since then, he is professor emeritus. An expert in g ...

* 1985

Mannque Rho Mannque Rho (born December 14, 1936) is a South Korean-frenchtheoretical physicist. He has contributed to theoretical nuclear/hadron physics and suggested Brown-Rho Scaling with Gerald E. Brown which predicts how the masses of the hadrons disappe ...

* 1986

Bernard Julia Bernard Julia (born 1952 in Paris) is a French theoretical physicist who has made contributions to the theory of supergravity. He graduated from Université Paris-Sud in 1978, and is directeur de recherche with the CNRS working at the École No ...

* 1987 Bernard Souillard * 1988 Paul Manneville * 1989

Jean Bellissard Jean Vincent Bellissard (born 1 March 1946, Lyon) is a French theoretical physicist and mathematical physicist, known for his work on C*-algebras, K-theory, noncommutative geometry as applied to solid state physics, particularly, to quantum Hall ef ...

* 1990 Pierre Coullet * 1991

Jean-Bernard Zuber Jean-Bernard Zuber is a French theoretical physicist. Education Zuber studied at the École polytechnique from 1966 to 1968 and then as a CNRS researcher at ththeoretical physics departmentof the Nuclear Research Center in Saclay. In 1974, he re ...

* 1992 Rémy Mosseri * 1993

Jean-François Joanny Jean-François is a French given name. Notable people bearing the given name include: * Jean-François Carenco (born 1952), French politician * Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832), French Egyptologist * Jean-François Clervoy (born 1958), Fre ...

* 1994 Dominique Escande * 1995 Costas Kounnas * 1996 Vincent Hakim * 1997

Patrick Mora Patrick Mora (born 1952) is a French theoretical plasma physicist who specializes in laser-plasma interactions. He was awarded the 2014 Hannes Alfvén Prize and 2019 Edward Teller Award for his contributions to the field of laser-plasma physics ...

* 1998 Denis Bernard * 1999 Pierre Binétruy * 2000 Jean-Louis Barrat * 2001 Vincent Pasquier * 2002

Leticia Cugliandolo Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo (born 1965) is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the Sorbonne Universit ...

and

Jorge Kurchan Jorge is a Spanish and Portuguese given name. It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios'') via Latin ''Georgius''; the former is derived from (''georgos''), meaning "farmer" or "earth-worker". The Latin form ''Georgius'' ...

* 2004 Bart Van Tiggelen * 2005

Satya Majumdar ''Satya'' (Sanskrit: सत्य; IAST: ''satya)'' is a Sanskrit word loosely translated as truth, essence. A. A. Macdonell, ''Sanskrit English Dictionary'', Asian Educational Services, , pp. 330–331 It also refers to a virtue in Indian relig ...

* 2008 Rémi Monasson * 2009

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* 2010 Jean-Philippe Uzan * 2015 François Gelis and Ubirajara van Kolck * 2016 Silke Biermann and Jesper Jacobsen * 2017 Olivier Bénichou and Raphaël Voituriez

References

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