Pierre Sabatier

Who is Pierre Sabatier?

Pierre Célestin Sabatier, grand-nephew of François Nau, graduated from École Normale Supérieure, Paris in physics and mathematics in 1958 then spent a year in Princeton University where he was a pupil of Professor Eugene Wigner. He was awarded his doctorate at the Paris-Sud 11 University in 1966. He had worked on Scattering theory, and, during the two years he had to serve in the French Navy, on coastal engineering and applied geophysics.

Professor Sabatier was the Founding Editor of the journal Inverse Problems, initiated the RCP264 workshops in Montpellier, and is one of the foremost exponents of the field of inverse problems. He published almost 200 articles and books, in domains going from pure mathematics to earth and ocean sciences, in particular the authoritative book on "Inverse Problems of Quantum Scattering Theory", coauthored with K.Chadan, and the encyclopedic one on "Scattering", coedited with E. R. Pike.

Distinguished Professor of Montpellier University, retired, Pierre Sabatier is Distinguished Lecturer in Physics of the University of Alberta and Doctor honoris causa of the University of Lecce, Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and currently serves in the boards of the two Journals "Inverse Problems" and "Inverse and ill-posed Problems". He recently published Memories in "Rêves et Combats d'un enseignant-chercheur. Retour Inverse.".