Edouard Brézin#
| Membership Number: | 2238 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2004 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1991 Professor at the 'Institut Universitaire de France
- Since 1986 Professor at Université Paris 6, Laboratory for theoretical physics (LPT) of the École Normale Supérieure
- 1986 - 1991 Director of the Department of Physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure
- 1974 - 2004 Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique
- 1963 - 1986 Member of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique in Saclay
Fields of Scholarship
- Critical behavior theory
- Macroscopic physical properties of matter
- Theory of magnetism
- Quantum Hall effect
- High energy physics
- Statistical physics
Honours and Awards
- 1991 Member of the French Academy of Sciences (President of the academy in 2005 - 2006)
- 2003 Foreign associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 2002 Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2003 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2006 Foreign member of the Royal Society
- Commander in the French National order of merit
- Officer of the Legion of Honor
- 2004 Institute of Physics President's Medal
- 2011 Dirac Medal of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (together with John Cardy and Alexander Zamolodchikov)
