Alain Benoit (born 1948) is a French physicist specialising in low temperature physics. He was awarded the CNRS silver medal in 1993 and the CNRS innovation medal in 2012.[1]

He is a research director at the Grenoble Very Low Temperature Centre, where he contributed to the cooling of the European Space Agency's Planck telescope to 0.1 K.[2] He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2002.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "2012 - Alain Benoit, Médaille de l'innovation du CNRS 2012 - Institut NÉEL". neel.cnrs.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  2. ↑ "Au plus près du big-bang". Libération.fr. Retrieved 2015-11-18.
  3. ↑ "Alain Benoît | Liste des membres de l'Académie des sciences / B | Listes par ordre alphabétique | Listes des membres | Membres | Nous connaître". www.academie-sciences.fr. Retrieved 2019-03-04.
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