Emmanuel Desurvire (born 1955) is a French researcher and writer. He is the recipient of 2007 John Tyndall Award.
Emmanuel Desurvire (born 1955) is a French researcher and writer. He is the recipient of 2007 John Tyndall Award.
Desurvire was born in 1955, in Boulogne, France to Raymond Desurvire, an aircraft engineer and Marcelle Desurvire, a psychologist. [1]
Desurvire attended University of Paris where he received his M.S. degree in theoretical physics in 1981 and University of Nice, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1983. [1]
In 2005, he was awarded with the William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award. [2]
In 1998, he received Benjamin Franklin Medal.
In 2007, he received John Tyndall Award for his contributions in the development of Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers. [3]
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