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About Bernard Sadoulet
- Bernard Sadoulet (born 23 April 1944 in Nice) is a French physicist. Sadoulet studied from 1963 to 1965 at the École polytechnique and received his doctorate in 1971 at University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.
- From 1966 to 1973 he worked at CERN and from 1976 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- He was involved in the design of the UA1 detector at CERN.In the 1990s and 2000s, he was engaged in the search for dark matter in the form of WIMPs.
- He developed cryogenic detectors to discover these WIMPs through the phonons they generated by collisions in crystals.
- Specifically, he initiated the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiments at the Soudan Underground Laboratory in Minnesota with Blas Cabrera Navarro.In 2013 he received the Panofsky Prize with Blas Cabrera.
- Sadoulet is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- In 2012 he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Since 1985 he is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- There from 1989 to 2001 he was director of the Center for Particle Astrophysics.
- He is currently the director of the LBNL Institute for Nuclear and Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (INPA).
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