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Luc Blanchet (born in 1956) is a French physicist, known for his works on the theory of general relativity.

Director of Research (first class) in the CNRS, former student of the École Polytechnique, he taught at the Pierre and Marie Curie University and École Normale Supérieure. He has been the president of the Fundamental Physics group in the CNES. He is a corresponding member of the Bureau des Longitudes.

His most important contributions concern the theory of gravitational radiation and the approximation methods in general relativity. He is a major actor in the development of post-Newtonian approximations, which play a crucial role in the analysis and interpretation of the gravitational wave signals observed by the LIGO and VIRGO experiments.


 * Langevin prize in physics of the French Academy of Sciences
 * One of the laureates of the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded for detection of gravitational waves 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted their existence.

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