Emmanuel Desurvire (born 1955) is a French researcher and writer. He is the recipient of 2007
John Tyndall Award.
Early life
Desurvire was born in 1955, in
Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; ; ; or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Hauts-de-France, Northern France. It is a Subprefectures in France, sub-prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Pas-de-Calais. Boul ...
, France to Raymond Desurvire, an
aircraft engineer and Marcelle Desurvire, a
psychologist
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.
Desurvire attended
University of Paris
The University of Paris (), known Metonymy, metonymically as the Sorbonne (), was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution. Emerging around 1150 as a corporation associated wit ...
where he received his M.S. degree in theoretical physics in 1981 and
University of Nice
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, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1983.
Career
In 2005, he was awarded with the William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award.
In 1998, he received
Benjamin Franklin Medal.
In 2007, he received
John Tyndall Award for his contributions in the development of
Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers.
Awards
* 2007:
John Tyndall Award
* 2022:
VinFuture Grand Prize
References
1955 births
Living people
People from Boulogne-sur-Mer
University of Paris alumni
Côte d'Azur University alumni
20th-century French male writers
Benjamin Franklin Medal (Franklin Institute) laureates
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