Gilles Chabrier

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| fields = Astrophysics

| workplaces = {{Plainlist|University of Exeter}}

| alma_mater = École normale supérieure de Lyon (PhD)

| doctoral_advisor = Jean-Pierre Hansen

| thesis_title = Contribution à l'étude des fluides coulombiens: application au cas des mélanges chargés alcalins-halogénures alcalins

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| thesis_year = 1985

| awards = {{nowrap|Prix Jean Ricard (2010)
Eddington Medal (2012)
Ampère Prize (2014)
Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize (2019)
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (2024)}}

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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

2006 CNRS Silver Medal{{cite web |url=http://www.cnrs.fr/en/research/awards/silver/2006.htm |title=CNRS Silver Medalists |access-date=2016-08-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160722182905/http://www.cnrs.fr/en/research/awards/silver/2006.htm |archive-date=2016-07-22 |url-status=dead }}
2010 Jean Ricard Prize
2012 Eddington Medal

{{cite web |url=http://www.ras.org.uk/news-and-press/217-news2011/1912-ras-honours-outstanding-astronomers-and-geophysicists |title=RAS honours outstanding astronomers and geophysicists|date=2011-01-14 |access-date=2016-08-02 }}

2014 Ampère Prize
2019 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize{{cite web|url=http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/hoyle/hoyle-medallists/page_72877.html|title=2019 Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize|access-date=2019-07-02|archive-date=2019-07-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702103302/http://www.iop.org/about/awards/subject/hoyle/hoyle-medallists/page_72877.html|url-status=dead}}
2024 Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

References

Category:Academics of the University of Exeter

Category:French astrophysicists

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research