Jacques Prost

Jacques Prost, born in 1946 in Bourg-en-Bresse, is a French physicist, former General director of École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la ville de Paris, member of the French Academy of Sciences.^[1]

Jacques Prost
Born	1946 (age 77–78)
Alma mater	ENS Lyon Harvard University Curie Institute
Awards	Lars Onsager Prize (2024)
Scientific career
Institutions	ESPCI Paris

Alumni of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud (sciences) (1965), Jacques Prost studied at Harvard University and founded and head (1987–1995) the "Theoretical Physico-Chemistry" Group^[2] of the ESPCI ParisTech under the direction of Pierre-Gilles de Gennes. His group studied liquid crystal^[3] and soft matter properties. In 1996, he founded the group "Physical Chemistry Curie" lab^[4] at the Curie Institute (Paris). His group studies physical approaches to biological problems and describes cell motion, molecular motors, the properties of biological membranes and protein adhesion.

Jacques Prost was the scientific advisor to Elf Aquitaine from 1990 to 1999. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2007. Jacques Prost has been the General director of ESPCI ParisTech,^[5] since 2003.

He is the recipient of the 2024 Lars Onsager Prize in theoretical statistical physics by the American Physical Society, for^[6]

influential contributions to the statistical physics of nonequilibrium phenomena and applications to soft matter and biological systems.

References

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2. Theoretical Physico-Chemistry Group at the ESPCI 2008-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
3. The Physics of liquid crystal, PG de Gennes, J. Prost, Oxford University Press
4. . Archived from the original on 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
5. . Archived from the original on 2009-03-30. Retrieved 2009-03-29.
6. "Congratulations to the 2024 Lars Onsager Prize recipient!". engage.aps.org. 2023-10-25. Retrieved 2023-11-23.