Jean Dalibard | |
Birth Date: | 8 December 1958 |
Birth Place: | France |
Nationality: | French |
Alma Mater: | École normale supérieure Sorbonne University |
Occupation: | Physicist |
Known For: | Magneto-optical trap |
Jean Dalibard (born 8 December 1958) is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences for "his outstanding and influential works in atomic physics and quantum optics".[1] In 2012, he received the Max Born Award and Davisson–Germer Prize. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018.[2] In 2020, he was honoured to be an international member of the National Academy of Sciences.[3]