Name : Uriel FRISCH

Affiliation and official address :

CNRS, Lab. Lagrangee, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
CS 34229
06304 NICE Cedex 4, France
Tel. +33-4-92 00 30 35, fax: +33-4-92 00 30 58
e-mail: uriel@oca.eu

Date, place of birth and nationality : December 1940 in Agen, France, French

Education (degrees, dates, universities) :

• 1967, PhD, University of Paris
• 1964, Docteur 3ème Cycle, Paris
• 1962, Licence de Mathématiques Appliquées, Paris

• 1963 - Present, CNRS (presently: Directeur de Recherche emeritus)
• 1978 - 1979, Visiting Professor, Harvard
• 1966 - 1967, Visiting scientist, Courant Institute, NYU
• 1959 - 1963, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Specialization (specify) :

1. main field : Turbulence, fluid dynamics and cosmology
2. other fields : Statistical physics, numerical methods
3. current research interests : Singularities for ideal fluids, reconstruction of the primordial Universe, history of science

Honors, Awards, Fellowships, Memberships of Professional Societies :

• 1957 Concours Général de Physique
• 1967 Prix Peccot (Collège de France) for doctoral work
• 1985 Prix Bazin (Académie des Sciences) for work on turbulence
• 1994/2015 ``Chevalier/Officier Ordre National du Mérite''
• 2003 Recipient Lewis Fry Richardson medal of Eur. Geophys. Soc.
• 2008 Elected Member French Academy of Sciences
• 2010 International prize of applied mechanics "Modesto Panetti e Carlo Ferrari" of the Turin Academy

Publications :

• Total number of papers : 249
• Number of papers in refereed journals : 167
• Book : 1 (Turbulence; the Legacy of A.N. Kolmogorov, CUP 1995)
• Citations : 22 868 (source: Google Scholar); 9 162 (source: Web of Science)

September 2014