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Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Jean Bellissard
- Jean Vincent Bellissard (born 1 March 1946, Lyon) is a French theoretical physicist and mathematical physicist, known for his work on noncommutative geometry and the quantum Hall effect.Bellisard worked as a teaching assistant at the École catholique des arts et métiers (E.C.A.M.) from 1965 to 1969.
- He graduated from the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 with bachelor's degree in 1967, Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) in wave mechanics in 1968, and DEA in theoretical physics in 1970.
- He qualified in 1969 with the Agrégation in physics.
- From 1969 to 1970 he taught at Lyon's Lycée La Martinière, an engineering preparatory school, and was simultaneously enrolled as a graduate student in theoretical physics at the Aix-Marseille University.
- In 1974 he received his doctorate from the Aix-Marseille University with thesis Champs quantifiés dans un champ exterieur (Quantized fields in an external field) with advisor Raymond Stora.
- Bellissard was a postdoc from 1974 to 1974 at the University of Lausanne with advisor Jean-Jacques Loeffel.
- At the Université de Provence Aix-Marseille I, Bellissard was from 1970 to 1980 an assistant professor, from 1980 to 1991 an associate professor, and from 1991 to 2007 a full professor.On a visit from October 1979 to January 1980 at the Institut des hautes études scientifiques (I.H.É.S.) he worked with Alain Connes and started on a program of research on the noncommutative geometry of aperiodic solids.
- Bellissard created the Group of Theoretical Physics at the Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse.
- During the 1980s he visited the United States several times.
- From 1983 to 1984 he was a visiting professor at Princeton University.
- In 1986 he was visiting researcher at Caltech.
- From 1993 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of the Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré (theoretical physics).
- In 2002 he moved to Atlanta, Georgia to become a full professor at Georgia Tech, where he has a joint appointment in the School of Mathematics and the School of Physics.In 1989 he received the Prix Paul-Langevin from the Société Française de Physique.
- In 1994 he was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zürich with talk Noncommmutative geometry and the quantum Hall effect.
- In 1996 he was made Chevalier Ordre des Palmes Académique (France).
- He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012.
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