Gilles Chabrier

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Gilles Chabrier
Alma materÉcole normale supérieure de Lyon (PhD)
AwardsPrix Jean Ricard (2010)
Eddington Medal (2012)
Ampère Prize (2014)
Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize (2019)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024)
Scientific career
FieldsAstrophysics
Institutions
University of Exeter
ThesisContribution à l'étude des fluides coulombiens: application au cas des mélanges chargés alcalins-halogénures alcalins (1985)
Doctoral advisorJean-Pierre Hansen

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

Gilles Chabrier was born on 30 June 1955 in Lyon. He studied physics at the École normale supérieure (ENS). After completing his PhD he continued his research at the University of Rochester. In the early 1990s he built up a research group at the École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS-Lyon) in collaboration with the nearby Lyon Observatory. In 1995, the Centre de recherche astronomique de Lyon was founded, known as the Centre de Recherche Astrophysics Lyon (CRAL) since 2007. Chabrier continues to lead one of the research groups at CRAL. He is also a research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS).

Before the discovery of brown dwarfs in 1995, Chabrier helped develop the theory of their structure in collaboration with Isabelle Baraffe, France Allard and Didier Saumon

Awards

References

  1. ^ "CNRS Silver Medalists". Archived from the original on 2016-07-22. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  2. ^ "RAS honours outstanding astronomers and geophysicists". 2011-01-14. Retrieved 2016-08-02.
  3. ^ "2019 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize". Archived from the original on 2019-07-02. Retrieved 2019-07-02.


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