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The physicist Alain Brillet won the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal

Physicists Alain Brillet and Thibault Damour for their major contributions to the detection of gravitational waves, first announced on 11 February 2016.

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Through his work on stabilized lasers, Alain Brillet, a visionary in the development of gravitational wave detectors, is one of the fathers of Europe's Virgo instrument.
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The physicist Alain Brillet, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Metal, in Nice in October 2017. Alain Brillet is currently senior researcher emeritus with CNRS, working at the ARTEMIS laboratory, which specialises in relativistic astrophysics, theories, experiments, metrology, instrumentation and signals. He joined CNRS in 1970, and very soon took an interest in stabilised lasers, a subject not previously studied in France at that time. Attracted by the potential benefits of gravitational wave…

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The physicist Alain Brillet, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Metal, in Nice in October 2017. Alain Brillet is currently senior researcher emeritus with CNRS, working at the ARTEMIS laboratory, which specialises in relativistic astrophysics, theories, experiments, metrology, instrumentation and signals. He joined CNRS in 1970, and very soon took an interest in stabilised lasers, a subject not previously studied in France at that time. Attracted by the potential benefits of gravitational wave…

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The physicist Alain Brillet, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Metal, in Nice in October 2017. Alain Brillet is currently senior researcher emeritus with CNRS, working at the ARTEMIS laboratory, which specialises in relativistic astrophysics, theories, experiments, metrology, instrumentation and signals. He joined CNRS in 1970, and very soon took an interest in stabilised lasers, a subject not previously studied in France at that time. Attracted by the potential benefits of gravitational wave…

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