Jean-Yves Ollitrault

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Jean-Yves Ollitrault studied at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris and earned his PhD from the University of Paris in 1989. He earned a permanent research position at CNRS (the French National Research Institute) in 1988. He works at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Saclay, near Paris, and teaches physics at Ecole polytechnique.


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The Littlest Liquid

The plasma of quarks and gluons that forms when a proton collides with a lead nucleus has unexpected liquidlike properties. Read More »