Thibault Damour

Recipient of the Albert Einstein Prize the Dirac Medal and the Médaille D'0r of CNRS

Thibault Damour is one of the leading theoretical physicists of our time, renowned for his fundamental contributions to General Relativity and the theory Gravitational Waves. His work laid the theoretical foundations that enabled the groundbreaking detection of gravitational waves, opening a new era for astrophysics. Through his research, he has made it possible to “listen” to the universe in ways that were once unimaginable.