Dominique Langevin
Dominique Langevin (French pronunciation: [dɔminik lɑ̃ʒvɛ̃]; born July 24, 1947) is a French researcher in physical chemistry. She is research director at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and leads the liquid interface group in the Laboratory of Solid State Physics at the University of Paris-Sud.[1][2]
The daughter of Maurice Cruchon and Jacqueline Maujean, she was born Dominique Anne-Marie Cruchon in Angoulême. In 1969, she married Michel Langevin.[1]
She received a PhD from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and conducted post-doctoral research at the Pierre Gilles de Gennes laboratory at the Collège de France.[3]
During the 1970s, she established the surfactant group at the École Normale Supérieure. During the early 1990s, she established the "Films de tensioactifs flexibles" research group. From 1994 to 1998, Langevin was director of the Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal in Bordeaux.[4] She was president of the European Colloid & Interface Society from 1992 to 1993.[3]
Her areas of research have included the surface of liquid crystals, foams and foam drainage, mixtures of surfactants and polymers and soap film drainage.[3]
She has been awarded the:
- Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) silver medal
- L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science
- Gentler-Kastler Prize of the Société Française de Physique and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
- Kash Mittal Award for Surfactant in Solution Science
- Overbeek Gold Medal 2012[4] of the European Colloid & Interface Society[3]
References
- 1 2 Who's Who in France. 2003.
- ↑ "Dominique Langevin" (PDF). les médailles d’argent (in French). Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
- 1 2 3 4 "Dominique Langevin: Overbeek Gold Medal winner 2012". European Colloid & Interface Society.
- 1 2 "Physical chemistry of foams" (PDF). Institut für Strömungsmechanik.