Physicist Jacqueline Bloch wins CNRS gold medal for polariton research
The French researcher receives her country's highest science honor for pioneering work on hybrid light-matter particles.
What to know
- Jacqueline Bloch receives the 2026 CNRS gold medal, France's premier science award, for research on polaritons—hybrid quantum particles formed by coupling light and matter.
- Her work at the Centre of Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies uses microcavities to study how photons and electrons exchange energy, advancing quantum physics understanding.
- Bloch is a director of research at C2N and member of the Academy of Sciences, following a career path inspired by her physicist father and mentored by renowned optical and solid-state physics professors.
Jacqueline Bloch Physicist and CNRS gold medalist
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“Mon père, Claude Bloch, était un grand physicien, et je l'ai perdu quand j'avais 4 ans.”
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Physicienne hors pair, Jacqueline Bloch est spécialiste d’objets microscopiques à mi-chemin entre matière et lumière : les polaritons. Elle vient de recevoir la médaille d’or du CNRS, la plus importante récompense de la recherche française. Portrait : lejournal.
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La semaine dernière, la physicienne Jacqueline Bloch a reçu la médaille d'or du CNRS pour ses travaux pionniers consacrés aux polaritons, des particules hybrides résultant du couplage entre lumière et matière. ▶️ https:// lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/jac queline-bloch-magicienne-de-la-lumiere Félicitations à elle pour cette reconnaissance, mais…
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