Denis Jérome
Denis Jerome (born 28 February 1939 in Paris) is a French
experimental physicist in the field of condensed matter, who
contributed to the discovery of superconductivity in organic
conductive matter.
Career
He studied at the Sorbonne, where he obtained his bachelor's
degree in science in 1960, then the diploma of advanced studies in
solid-state physics. In 1965, he obtained his doctorate in science
under the supervision of Professor Anatole Abragam at the
University of Paris-Saclay.
From 1965 to 1966, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Denis Jérome in La Jolia in 1964
University of California at San Diego, in the laboratory of
Professor Walter Kohn, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry, where he conducted research in collaboration with Professor T. M. Rice. He then continued
his post-doctoral research at Harvard University until March 1967.
In October 1962, he joined the Centre national de recherche scientifique (CNRS) as a research intern. He
successively became a research master in 1970, research director in 1980, and director of research
emeritus of the CNRS in 2004.
In 1967, he formed the "study group on the electronic properties of metals and alloys under very high
hydrostatic pressure and low temperature" at the University of Paris-Sud at the request of Professors
Jacques Friedel and André Guinier.
He is a specialist in the physics of low-dimensional electrons and the metal-insulator transition, known as
Nevill Mott's transition.
His major contribution to scientific knowledge is the discovery, in 1980, in cooperation with Professor
Klaus Bechgaard,[1] of the phenomenon of superconductivity in the organic solid with the detection of
superconductivity at 0.9K under a pressure of 12 kbar in Bechgaard salt (TMTSF)2PF6.[2]
He has also contributed to the study of low-dimensional conductors, organic or inorganic, through various
measurements of electronic properties under high pressure. He has published more than 390 scientific
articles in international journals and several journal articles, book chapters.[3] and in 2024 a retrospective
on low dimensional organic conductors and superconductors.
He has been chief editor of several international scientific journals, Journal de Physique Lettres, Journal
de Physique, European Physical Journal B and Europhysics Letters.
Within the framework of the French Academy of Sciences, of which he is a member in the Physics
section,[4] he coordinated the drafting of reports on the individual evaluation of researchers and teacher-
researchers in the exact and experimental sciences in 2009, on the proper use of bibliometry[5] in 2011
and on the new challenges of scientific publishing[6] in 2014. He was President of the Physics section of
the French Academy of Sciences from 2011 to 2015. He led a symposium on the interface between
physics and chemistry[7] in February 2013 and on the physics of condensed matter in the 21st century[8]
in January 2016.
Distinctions
Prizes
Bronze medal CNRS, 1965
Laureate of the French Academy of Sciences (Doistaut-Blutel Prize), 1980
Holweck Prize of the French Physical Society and Institute of Physics, 1985
French Outreach Committee Award, 1990
Hewlett Packard Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society 1991, with Klaus
Bechgaard for the discovery of organic superconduction
Kelvin Lecturer, Society of Electrical Engineers in London, 1984
Regent's Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, November 1992
Member of learned societies
French Physical Society
European Physical Society, Fellow of the European Physical Society
Member of the French Academy of Sciences since 2005[4]
Doctorates Honoris Causa and distinctions
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Université de Sherbrooke and Speaker Walter Kohn,
Canada, June 2005
Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Stuttgart, Germany, November 2005
Fellow of the European Physical Society, October 2008
Decorations
Officier in the Ordre National du Mérite, November 2008
Chevalier in the Ordre of the Légion d'honneur, July 2016
Family
Denis Jerome is the grandson of architect Lucien Bechmann who built part of the Cité Universitaire in
Paris and the great grandson of Polytechnicien et ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées Georges Bechmann
who contributed to the construction of the North-South metro line in Paris and the construction of the
sanitation network.
Publications
Bach, Jean-François; Jérome, Denis (2014). "Les nouveaux enjeux de l'édition scientifique"
(http://www.academie-sciences.fr/archivage_site/presse/communique/rads_241014.pdf)
(PDF). Rapports de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). Institut de France: 56.
Bach, Jean-François; Jérome, Denis (2011). "Du bon usage de la bibliométrie pour
l'évaluation individuelle des chercheurs" (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/pdf/rapport/avis1
70111.pdf) (PDF). Rapport de l'Académie des Sciences (in French). Institut de France: 70.
D. Jerome and H. J. Schulz: Organic conductors and superconductors, Advances in
Physics, 51, 293-479, 2002.
D. Jérome, A. Mazaud, M. Ribault and K. Bechgaard, "Superconductivity in a synthetic
organic conductor TMTSF2PF6", Journal de Physique Lettres, vol. 41, no. 4, 1980, p. 95-98
(read online[archive]).
D. Jerome and C. Bourbonnais, "Quasi one-dimensional organic conductors: from Fröhlich
conductivity and Peierls insulating state to magnetically-mediated superconductivity, a
retrospective", Comptes Rendus Physique, vol. 25, 2024, p. 17-178
(https://doi.org/10.5802/crphys.164).
References
1. "Klaus Bechgaard" (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-d
es-sciences-/-B/klaus-bechgaard.html).
2. Jerome, Denis (2015-01-14). "Organic Superconductors" (https://doi.org/10.4249%2Fschola
rpedia.30655). Scholarpedia. 10 (1): 30655. doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.30655 (https://doi.org/
10.4249%2Fscholarpedia.30655).
3. "Google scholar" (https://scholar.google.fr/scholar?start=0&q=Denis+J%C3%A9rome&hl=fr
&as_sdt=0,5).
4. "Académie des sciences" (https://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Aca
demie-des-sciences-/-J/denis-jerome.html). Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20160411
171608/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Liste-des-membres-de-l-Academie-des-sciences
-/-J/denis-jerome.html) from the original on 2016-04-11.
5. Bach & Jérome 2011, p. 5.
6. Bach & Jérome 2014, p. 5.
7. "Interface Physique Chimie" (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/fr/Colloques-conferences-et-d
ebats-par-et-pour-la-communaute-scientifique/a-l-interface-de-la-chimie-et-de-la-physique.ht
ml).
8. "La physique de la matière condensée au 21eme siècle" (http://www.academie-sciences.fr/f
r/Colloques-conferences-et-debats/physique-de-la-matiere-condensee-au-21e-siecle-l-impa
ct-de-jacques-friedel.html).
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