Getting a drawing from all Nobel prizes I meet


Nicolaas Bloembergen Nobel Prize in Physics (1981) for his contribution to laser spectroscopy He's the guy behind non-linear optics (2w generation) met in Paris (2010)	Robert W. Wilson Nobel Prize in Physics (1978) for the discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation He's "Wilson" in "Penzias & Wilson" met in Houston, TX (2011)	Robert Curl Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996) for the discovery of fullerenes (fullerenes are soccerball-shaped C⁶⁰) met in Houston (2011)

Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Nobel Prize in Physics (1997) for his contribution to laser cooling He's the writer of a famous French book about quantum mechanics met in Paris (2010)	Ahmed Zewail Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1999) for the development of femto-chemistry met in Paris (2010)	Herbert Kroemer Nobel Prize in Physics (2000) for his developments on heterostructures met in Paris (2010)

Theodor W. Hansch Nobel Prize in Physics (2006) for his contribution frequency combs and high precision spectroscopy met in Paris (2009)	Charles K. Kao Nobel Prize in Physics (2009) for his contribution fiber optics met in Paris (2010)	Alain Aspect Wolf Prize in Physics (2010) for his tests of Bell inequalities met in Paris (2010)

I'v missed Charles Townes, who refused to draw me a Maser. Long story with Maiman...
I've also missed Albert Fert, who is always too busy...

Giants on whose shoulders I stand (but still can't see no further ;-)

The following are not Nobel prizes, but they've done very cool stuff and were nice enough to sketch a lil' something.


Emmanuel Desurvire Pionneer in Erbium Doped Fiber Amplifier Laureate of Millenium Technology Prize met in Palaiseau (2010)	Emmanuel Rosencher Mogul in optoelectronics French Academy of Science GP met in Palaiseau (2011)	Sébastien Bigo Optical Communications Transmission speed record breaker met in Paris (2010)	Juris Upatnieks Pioneer in holography met in Paris (2010)	Hervé Lefevre Fiber optics Inventor of Optical Gyroscope Former President of EOS met in Vincennes (2010)

Serge Haroche Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics CNRS Gold Medal (2009) met in Paris (2010)	François Hache Circular Dichroism in proteins CNRS Silver Medal (2011) met in Palaiseau (2008)	Emmanuel Joffre 2D spectroscopy Professor of QM at Ecole Polytechnique met in Palaiseau (2008)	Jean-Louis Martin Femtosecond biology Professor of Biology at Ecole Polytechnique met in Palaiseau (2008)	Etienne Klein Philosopher of science met in Palaiseau (2011)

Art+Science

I worked toward the organization of an event dealing with the science in the art and art in science (momentarily paused).
I made a small inventory of what kind of stuff could be developped. You can have a look here
Some additional material can be found here, here or here for example.

I get hectic in front of chemical or physical phenomena such as gyroscopic effect or ferrofluids structure building.


Chemical gardens, made in champagne cups just after Serge Galam's Talk "Sociophysics : Do human behave like atoms". I found that champagne and silicate of soda don't mix very well...

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Science education, epistemology and maieuticcs

I made the transcript of the Feynman's "Fun to Imagine" (here, in English), and the translation into French (here or pdf).
I have also translated R. Hamming's talk "You and your research", available in French in html, E. Dijkstra's EWD594 Archive "Parable" (here in French) and some other short texts.
(check my weblog for new texts)

Deeper into epistemology, I OCRed 1959's "The two cultures" talke by C.R. Snow. You can find an html version here. I won't translate this one, for I'm already translating the two "Unreasonable effectiveness of Mathematics (Hamming) in Natural Science (Wigner)

Quotations collection

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Robert Heinlein

Check my quotations collection here (lots are in English, some are in French - it's a total mess, beware!)

Computing, Arduino, Kinect, etc...

I like to play with waves.
I like to play with electrons.
I like to play with electric sheeps.
I like to play with play with Arduino, Kinect, webcams etc. !

A project I had at Ecole Polytechnique.
The idea was to use outdoor advertising screens coupled with a webcam to make render perceptive 3D and make it interactive.
We were a team of 5; we were building a BP, and I was the programmer.

It worked pretty well, and we presented the product to JCDecaux' Director of Marketing. But our team desintegrated when things were to become serious (most of my 'partners' went to US universities).

A light guitar made using Arduino Uno, a light sensor and a LED to simulate the string, a piezo to produce the sound and a joystick to change the tone.
It's a baby laser harp (unfortunately, I had only time to write my manuscript...)

There's always more projects showcased on my weblog!