Jacques Villain

Jacques Villain (born March 13, 1934) is a French physicist. He received his PhDat the École normale supérieure, did research at the Institut Laue-Langevinin Grenoble, held, from 1984 to 1988, the position of a director at the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, and he is, since 1996, "directeur des recherches" at the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique. In the year 2000 he was elected asa member of the Académie des sciences.

His main research areas are in Statistical Physics,
Solid State Physics, und Surface Science. He is best known for his excellent contributions to the theory of crystal growth, surface dynamics, low-dimensional
magnetism, as well as spatially modulated, commensurate and incommensurate structuresin solids.

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* [http://www.academie-sciences.fr/Membres/V/Villain_Jacques.htm Citation of Jacques Villain by the Académie des sciences with biography]