Joseph Zyss
{{Short description|French physicist}}
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|birth_date = 1950
|birth_place = Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
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|nationality = French
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|fields = Physicist
|workplaces = Institut d'Optique
École Polytechnique
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
|alma_mater = École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (E.N.S., 1965)
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|doctoral_students = Sophie Brasselet
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|known_for = Molecular photonics
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- Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (2010)
- {{ill|Yves-Rocard Award|fr|Prix Yves-Rocard}} (1996)
- ForMemRS (2015).{{Cite web|url=http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/files/prix-jean-jerphagnon/jury/joseph-zyss.pdf|title=Joseph Zyss|website=prixjeanjerphagnon.org|access-date=2018-02-26|archive-date=2018-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226032252/http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/files/prix-jean-jerphagnon/jury/joseph-zyss.pdf|url-status=dead}}}}
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Joseph Zyss (born in 1950) is a French physicist who specialises in molecular photonics and nonlinear optics. He is the author or co-author of more than 600 articles in the field.{{Cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joseph_Zyss|title= Joseph Zyss|website= researchgate.net}}
Career
From 1975 to 1997, Zyss worked at the CNET's Bagneux Laboratory. Subsequently he has worked in the Laboratoire de photonique quantique et moléculaire (UMR 8537), and is its former director (1998–2006). In 2002, he was the founder of the {{ill|Jean-Le-Rond-d'Alembert Institute|fr|Institut Jean-Le-Rond-d'Alembert}} (IFR 121), and served as its director until 2015. He also founded the European Associated Laboratory (LEA NaBi), a collaboration between CNRS and the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of nanobiotechnologies. As of 2018, he is an Emeritus professor at the École normale supérieure de Cachan.{{cite web|url=http://www.ens-cachan.fr/lecole/distinctions/joseph-zyss|title=Joseph Zyss - ENS-PARIS-SACLAY|website=www.ens-cachan.fr|access-date=2018-02-25|archive-date=2018-02-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226032431/https://www.ens-cachan.fr/lecole/distinctions/joseph-zyss|url-status=dead}}
Research
His research has focused on molecular photonics. He specialises in molecular-level nonlinear optical effects.{{Citation | last=Zyss| first=Joseph | year=1994 | title=Molecular Nonlinear Optics : Materials, Physics and Devices| publisher=Academic Press | isbn=0-521-63303-6}} These researches have linked basic physical chemistry with technologies and applications including polymers for information technology and biophotonics imaging.{{Citation | last=Kuhn | first=Hans Jochen | year=1991 | title=Nonlinear Optical Materials =CRC Press | publisher=CRC Press | isbn=9780849301476}}
Awards and honours
Zyss is an elected fellow of The Optical Society,[http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/files/prix-jean-jerphagnon/jury/joseph-zyss.pdf Joseph Zyss] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180226032252/http://www.prixjeanjerphagnon.org/files/prix-jean-jerphagnon/jury/joseph-zyss.pdf |date=2018-02-26 }} and has been awarded the Société Française de Physique's IBM prize and {{ill|Yves-Rocard Award|fr|Prix Yves-Rocard}}, as well as the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize (2010).{{cite web|url=http://sfp.in2p3.fr/Prix/prix.html#rocard|title=Prix de la SFP|website=sfp.in2p3.fr}}
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180916202840/https://www.frenchscienceindia.org/5-questions-to-joseph-zyss-ens-cachan/ 5 Questions to… Joseph Zyss, ENS Cachan – Frenchscienceindia]
- [http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1646.htm Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)]
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