Jean Dalibard (born 8 December 1958) is a French physicist, Professor at the École Polytechnique, member of the French Academy of Sciences and a researcher at the École Normale Supérieure. In 2009, Dalibard received the Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences for "his outstanding and influential works in atomic physics and quantum optics". In 2012, he received the Max Born Award and Davisson–Germer Prize. He was elected an international member of the American Philosophical Society in 2018. In 2020, he was honoured to be an international member of the National Academy of Sciences. See also Quantum jump method References External links Lectures Mécanique quantique Physique quantique et statistique 1958 births Living people Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research École Normale Supérieure alumni Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni Academic staff of École Polytechnique French physicists Members of the French Academy of Sciences Members of the American Philosophical Society Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences Fellows of the American Physical Society