The Prix Ampère de l’Électricité de France is a scientific prize awarded annually by 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 ...
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Founded in 1974 in honor of
André-Marie Ampère
André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics". He is also the inventor of nu ...
to celebrate his 200th birthday in 1975, the award is granted to one or more French scientists for outstanding research work in mathematics or physics. The monetary award is 30,500 euro, funded by Électricité de France.
Winners
* 2019 :
Jacqueline Bloch
Jacqueline Bloch is a French physicist, born in 1967, specialist in nanosciences, member of the French Academy of sciences.
Biography
Jacqueline Bloch is an ESPCI engineer, graduated in 1991 (106th promotion), with a DEA in condensed matter p ...
* 2018 :
Frank Merle
* 2017 :
* 2016 :
* 2015 :
* 2014 :
Gilles Chabrier
Gilles Chabrier is a French astrophysicist who is best known for his work on brown dwarfs. He is currently a professor of astronomy at the University of Exeter.
Life and scientific work
Chabrier studied physics at the École normale supé ...
* 2013 :
Arnaud Beauville
* 2012 :
* 2011 :
* 2010 :
* 2009 :
* 2008 :
Gérard Iooss
Gérard Iooss (born 14 June 1944 in Charbonnier-les-Mines, Puy-de-Dôme) is a French mathematician, specializing in dynamical systems and mathematical problems of hydrodynamics.
Education and career
Iooss attended school in Clermont-Ferrand and ...
* 2007 :
* 2004, 2005, 2006 : ''Prize not awarded''.
* 2003 :
Gilles Lebeau
Gilles Lebeau is a :French mathematicians, French mathematician born on 17 November 1954, professor at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis (since 2001), member of the Institut Universitaire de France, Inst ...
* 2002 :
* 2001 :
Bernard Derrida
Bernard Derrida (; born 1952) is a French theoretical physicist. He is best known for his work in statistical mechanics, and is the eponym of ''Derrida plots'', an analytical technique for characterising differences between Boolean networks.
Biogr ...
* 2000 :
Pierre Suquet
Pierre Suquet (born 22 October 1954) is a French theoretician mechanic and research director at the CNRS. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences.
Biography
He did his preparatory classes in Grenoble (Maths Sup) then at Louis-Le Grand ...
* 1999 :
Yves Colin de Verdière
Yves Colin de Verdière is a French mathematician.
Life
He studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in the late 1960s, obtained his Ph.D. in 1973, and then spent the bulk of his working life as faculty at Joseph Fourier University in ...
* 1998 : and
Jean-Michel Raimond
* 1997 :
Michèle Vergne
Michèle Vergne (born August 29, 1943, in L’Isle-Adam, Val d´Oise) is a French mathematician, specializing in analysis and representation theory.
Life and work
Michèle Vergne studied from 1962 to 1966 at the École Normal Supérieure de ...
* 1996 : and
Marc Mézard
Marc Mézard (born 29 August 1957) is a French physicist and academic administrator. He was, from 2012 to 2022, the director of the ''École normale supérieure'' (ENS). He is the co-author of two books.
Early life
Marc Mézard was born on 29 A ...
* 1995 :
Claude Itzykson
* 1994 :
* 1993 :
Christophe Soulé
* 1992 :
Pierre-Louis Lions
* 1991 :
Michel Devoret
Michel Devoret is a French physicist and F. W. Beinecke Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University. He also holds a position as the Director of the Applied Physics Nanofabrication Lab at Yale. He is known for his pioneering work on macrosco ...
and
* 1990 :
Jean-Michel Bismut
Jean-Michel Bismut (born 26 February 1948) is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Université Paris-Sud since 1981.
His mathematical career covers two apparently different branches of
mathematics: probability theory and diffe ...
* 1989 :
Adrien Douady
* 1988 :
Jules Horowitz
* 1987 :
Michel Raynaud
* 1986 :
* 1985 :
Haïm Brezis
* 1984 :
Daniel Kastler
* 1983 :
Claude Bouchiat,
Marie-Anne Bouchiat and
* 1982 :
Paul-André Meyer
* 1981 :
Édouard Brézin,
Jean Zinn-Justin
* 1980 :
Alain Connes
* 1979 :
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
* 1978 :
Pierre Cartier
* 1977 :
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
* 1976 :
Jacques Dixmier
* 1975 :
André Lagarrigue
André Lagarrigue (1924 – 14 January 1975) was a French Particle physics, particle physicist. Being the initiator of the Gargamelle experiment at CERN, his work was of paramount importance in the discovery of neutral currents — the first exper ...
* 1974 :
Jean Brossel
See also
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List of mathematics awards
This list of mathematics awards is an index to articles about notable awards for mathematics. The list is organized by the region and country of the organization that sponsors the award, but awards may be open to mathematicians from around the wor ...
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List of physics awards
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List of prizes named after people
References
External links
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Physics awards
Mathematics awards
Awards established in 1974