French physicist
Yves Quéré (born 1931 in Commercy) is a French physicist and a member of the Academy of Sciences.
Quéré is Professor Emeritus at the École Polytechnique, where he was elected President of the Department of Physics and President of the Senate of Professors, and then appointed Director of Education.
Biography and personal life.
A mining engineer (Paris) with a doctorate in science, he worked at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique and then at the École polytechnique
In 1961, he married France Jaulmes, a writer and theologian. They have three children.
With Jean-Michel Molkhou, Philip Boenhoffer and Frédéric Fortineau, he won a 1st Prize at the CEM (European Chamber Music Competition).
Scientific work.
His research is on the physics of materials and in particular on the study of the interaction of particles with solids and the effects of irradiation, placing his work at the border between academic research and applications.
This work focused on:
Honours.
Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 18 February 1991, he was its delegate for international relations for eight years. Yves Quéré was elected in 2000 as co-chair of the InterAcademy Panel (IAP), which is the assembly of the 100 or so Academies of Science around the world. With Georges Charpak and Pierre Léna, he has been involved since 1996 in the renovation of science education at school, "La Main à la pâte", where he has been particularly involved in international dissemination (Europe, Latin America, China, French-speaking Africa...)
He was appointed a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on 20 December 2003. He was promoted to the rank of Commandeur of the Légion d'Honneur on 13 July 2007.
Publications.
He is the author of about a hundred publications and several books, including:
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