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The fifteen winners of the 1998 CNRS Silver Medal |
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The CNRS Silver Medal is awarded to researchers who have earned national and international recognition for the originality, quality and importance of their work.
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Department of Physical Sciences and Mathematics (SPM)
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- Michel BRION, 41,
is a CNRS research director at the Joseph Fourier Institute (CNRS-Université
de Grenoble 1) in Grenoble. He is a world famous specialist in algebraic
group theory and in the theory of invariants.
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- Christian GLATTLI,
45, is a researcher of the Department of condensed state physics at
the CEA in Saclay. His work in the field of quantum liquids has earned
him international renown.
Contact: Frédérique Laubenheimer
Email: frederique.laubenheimer@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 42 63
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Department of nuclear and and corpuscular physics (PNC) – National Institute of nuclear and particle physics (IN2P3)
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- Jean-François CHEMIN, 54, is a professor at the University of Bordeaux and a researcher at the Centre d’études nucléaires of Bordeaux-Gradignan (CNRS-Université de Bordeaux 1). He has devoted his scientific career to the study of the correlation between nuclear and atomic dynamics, particularly in the field of X-ray emissions.
Contact:
Geneviève Edelheit
Email: genevieve.edelheit@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 47 60
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Department of Engineering sciences (SPI)
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- François AMIRANOFF,
43, is a CNRS research director at the Laboratory for the use of intense
lasers (LULI) (CNRS-Ecole Polytechnique-Université Paris 6),
in Palaiseau. For the past ten years, he has conducted research on the
acceleration of particles through laser plasmas.
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- Jean-Louis CHABOCHE, 53, is an engineer and research director at ONERA. He is one of the founding fathers of thermomechanics of materials.
Contact:
Béatrice Revol
Email: beatrice.revol@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 42 32
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Sciences of the Universe (SDU) - National Institute for the Sciences of the Universe (INSU)
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- Thérèse
ENCRENAZ, 53, CNRS researcher director and director of the Department
of Space research of the Paris Observatory (CNRS-Observatoire de Paris),
in Meudon. She is one of the most famous French planetologists and has
earned international recognition for her work on the atmosphere of giant
planets, through multi-wavelength spectroscopy.
- Bruno HAMELIN, 46,
is a professor at the University of Aix-Marseille and a member of the
oceanology and biochemistry laboratory (CNRS-Université Aix-Marseille),
in Marseilles. He is a specialist in chemical geodynamics. His main
scientific objective is to trace the origin of earth components and
analyze their evolution in the earth crust and mantle, in the ocean
and in the atmosphere, thanks to long-period isotopic methodologies.
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Contacts:
Christiane Grappin (Planet sciences)
Email: christiane.grappin@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 43 37
Philippe Chauvin (Astronomy)
Telephone: + 33 1 44 96 43 36
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Department of Chemical Sciences (SC)
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- Jean-Paul BEHR, 51,
CNRS research director, is the director of the Genetic chemistry laboratory
(CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur), in Strasbourg. He has worked,
in the field of biotechnology and gene therapy, on the development of
molecules which fix themselves to DNA : chemical probes of the structure
of nucleic acids, non-enzymatic tying (ligation) of DNA, recognition
of DNA sequences thanks to modified oligonucleotids — synthetic
carriers for the transfer of genes to cells.
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- Guy BERTRAND, 46,
CNRS research director, is the head of the basic and applied heterochemistry
laboratory (CNRS-Université de Toulouse 3), in Toulouse. His
research focuses essentially on coordination chemistry (chemistry of
elements of the principal groups). He has synthesized and described
the first stables structures of highly reactive chemical species
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Contact:
Laurence Mordenti
Email: laurence.mordenti@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 41 09
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Department of Life Sciences (SDV)
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- Margaret BUCKINGHAM,
54, CNRS researcher director, head of the laboratory “molecular
and cell bases of development” (CNRS-Institut Pasteur). Her work
is devoted to myogenesis and the regulation of the genes needed for
muscle development, as well as the transcriptional regulation of actin
and myosin genes during muscle growth, and the morphogenesis of the
heart.
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- Jérôme GIRAUDAT,
42, is a research director at the Institute of vegetal sciences (CNRS),
in Gif-sur-Yvette, where he created the Arabidopsis molecular genetics
group. He has mainly studied the mechanisms governing the action of
a vegetal hormone, abscissic acid (ABA), in this model plant.
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- Michel RAYMOND, 40,
is a CNRS research director at the Institute of sciences of the evolution
(CNRS-Université de Montpellier 2), in Montpellier. His research
is centred on natural selection and adaptation. His main model has been
so far the Culex pipiens mosquito, which has developed a resistance
to insecticides through a process of natural selection.
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Contact:
Thierry Pilorge
Email: thierry.pilorge@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 40 23
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences (SHS)
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- François AZOUVI,
53, is a CNRS research director at the Center for the history of modern
philosophy (CNRS) in Villejuif. He is also a research supervisor at
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. His research in philosophy
concerns the invention of the notion of bodily existence, which first
appeared in the work of Descartes. He is chief editor of the Revue de
Métaphysique et de Morale; he has published works on how Kant
was first perceived in France and on the philosophy of the Ideologues.
- Dominique JULIA,
59, is a CNRS research director and member of the Centre for historical
research (CNRS-EHESS), in Paris. He is co-director, with Philippe Boutry,
of the Centre of European religious anthropology at the EHESS. He has
worked in two main fields: history of education in modern times (development
of the French school network, sociology of scholastic success or failure,
the status of teachers, the content of school curricula, etc.), and
history of religion in the modern period.
- Georges KLEIBER,
54, is professor of linguistics at Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg,
where he has been director of the research team Scolia for the past
ten years. His research, which concerns a variety of themes and topics,
focuses on the relationship between meaning and reference. His studies
in lexical semantics, verbal semantics and in the field of referential
markers all pursue the same goal — to determine, in the process
of constructing meaning, what is to be attributed to “the Caesar
of semantics and to the God of interpretation”.
Contact: Annick Ternier
Email: annick.ternier@cnrs-dir.fr
Telephone: +33 1 44 96 43 10
