Prof Jean-Pierre Hansen, FRS

Career: research assoc CNRS 1967-73, prof of physics Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 1973-86, prof of physics and head Dept of Physics Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon 1986-97, prof of theoretical chemistry Univ of Cambridge and fell CCC Cambridge 1997-; visiting scientist Institut Laue-Langevin Grenoble 1980-81, visiting Miller prof Univ of Calif Berkeley 1991, visiting fell Balliol Coll and Physical Chemistry Laboratory Univ of Oxford 1994-95; memb: Société Française de Physique 1969, Institut Universitaire de France 1992-97; Grand Prix de l'Etat Academy of Science (France) 1991, Prix Spécial Société Française de Physique 1998, Liquid Matter Prize European Physical Soc 2005, Rumford Medal Royal Soc 2006; Dr (hc) Université de Liege 2008; FRSC 1998, FRS 2002

Books and Publications: Theory of Simple Liquids (monograph with I R McDonald, 1976, 3 edn 2006), Basic Concepts for Simple and Complex Liquids (monograph with J L Barrat, 2003); also author of over 250 papers in scientific jls