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Materials Science in the Service of Art History

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Maurice Bernard has been active in research on the physics of semiconductors and quantum optics at the Centre National d’Etude des Telecommunications, where he managed several large programs and teams of physicists. He became its director in 1978. He was for many years professor of physics at the Ecole Polytechnique and he became director of Research and Education of this institution in 1983. In 1990 he took charge of the Labo-ratoire de Recherche des Mus\’ees de France. He graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique and is a Doctor of Science of the University of Paris.

Jean-Michel Dupouy has been deputy director of the Laboratoire de Recherche des Muse’es de France since 1991. He has always been engaged in materials research at the Commissariat a VEnergie Atomique in France, focusing on basic physical metallurgy and then on materials for energy-producing systems such as fast breeders and fusion reactors. He graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Paris and holds an MS and ScD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Bernard, M., Dupouy, JM. Laboratoire de Recherche des Musées de France. MRS Bulletin 19, 68–71 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1557/S088376940004759X

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