Bernard Sapoval

Bernard Sapoval (30 October 1937 – 26 August 2020) was a French physicist.[1] He was known for his work in semi-conductors, and fractals.

Bernard Sapoval
Born(1937-10-30)30 October 1937
Paris
Died26 August 2020(2020-08-26) (aged 82)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
OccupationPhysicist

Biography

An engineer, Sapoval graduated from ESPCI Paris in 1960.[2] He continued his studies at the École Polytechnique to study the fields of magnetic resonance of semiconductors.

Beginning in 1970, Sapoval was a professor at the École Polytechnique. In 1976, he became director of the condensed matter physics lab at the school. In 1978, he became president of the physics department. In 1997, he began working at the École normale supérieure Paris-Saclay and served as research director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[3]

In the 1970s, he met Benoit Mandelbrot and began studying fractals, which he researched on the coast of Brittany.[4] In 1997, he published Universalité et Fractales, Jeux d'enfants ou délits d'initié, which made fractal geometry more accessible to the general public and won him the Prix de la Culture scientifique in 1998.[5] In 2003, he received the Grand Prix de l'innovation for his research on the fractal wall.[6] In 1995, he was awarded a fellowship of the American Physical Society.[7]

Bernard Sapoval died on 26 August 2020 in Paris at the age of 82.

Publications
  • Physique des semi-conducteurs (1984)
  • Les fractales (1990)
  • Physique des semi-conducteurs (1991)
  • Physics of semiconductors (1995)
  • Universalités et fractales, jeux d’enfant ou délits d’initié (1997)
  • Universalités et fractales (2001)
  • Elements of semiconductor physics (2002)

References
  1. "Décès de Bernard Sapoval, l'un des piliers de l'histoire de l'X". École Polytechnique (in French). 1 September 2020.
  2. "Les ingénieurs de la 75e promotion de l'ESPCI Paris". ESPCI Paris (in French).
  3. "Bernard Sapoval". CNRS (in French).
  4. "La recherche qui ne fait pas de bruit". Mediapart (in French). 9 September 2012.
  5. Sapoval, Bernard (1997). Universalités et fractales (in French). Paris: Flammarion. ISBN 9782082112079.
  6. "Benoît Mandelbrot". Geoffrey Bruno & Loic Devilliers (in French).
  7. "APS Fellow Archive". American Physical Society. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
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