Claudine Hermann
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Claudine Hermann | |
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 Hermann in 2013 | |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure de jeunes filles |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Solid state physics |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique |
| Thesis | Pompage optique dans l'antimoniure de gallium : détection optique de la résonance électronique (1976) |
Claudine Hermann (19 December 1945 – 17 July 2021) was a French physicist and Honorary Professor at École Polytechnique, the well-known grande école founded in 1794 and located in Palaiseau, France. In 1992 she became their first woman Professor. She was also the Vice President of the European Platform of Women Scientists. She founded an organisation, Femmes et sciences, who have proposed 72 names to be added to the sides of the Eiffel Tower, including Hermann.
Hermann was the daughter of a pharmacist. She studied at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles and graduated in 1965.[1] She completed her doctoral studies at Paris Diderot University, with a thesis that considered gallium antimonide.[2] She was appointed a lecturer at École Polytechnique in 1980.[3] She taught classes in semiconductor physics.[4]
