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The physicist Thibault Damour won the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal

2017

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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The theoretical work of Thibault Damour, a specialist in black holes and gravitational waves, played a decisive role in the analysis of data from the gravitational wave detectors.

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, enjoys a tea break at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES in…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, enjoys a tea break at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES in…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with the Scientific Secretary Cécile Gourgues at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, seen in conversation with Chris Kavanagh at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, with Emmanuel Ulmo, Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, seen in his office with Chris Kavanagh at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, seen in his office with Chris Kavanagh at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

The physicist Thibault Damour, joint winner of the CNRS 2017 Gold Medal, at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, in September 2017. This theorist, who has earned worldwide renown for his groundbreaking research on black holes, pulsars, gravitational waves and quantum cosmology, joined the CNRS in 1977, working at the Paris Observatory's Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology. He has been a tenured professor at the IHES since 1989. Thibault…

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