The Three Physicists Prize 2024 has been awarded to the physicist Martine Ben Amar for her major theoretical contribution in various fields of non-linear physics.

Martin Ben Amar wins the 2024 Three Physicists Prize for her theoretical works on non-linear physics

The theoretical work of the physicist Martine Ben Amar covers a huge variety of phenomena: dendritic growth, Saffman-Taylor instability, extreme distortion of elastic plates, morphogenesis, instabilities of fractures in brittle solids or also self-adaptation in vibrating systems.

In her most recent researches, she works on the interface between physics and biology, in particular on the modelling of the growth of cancerous tumours with equations of the type of reaction-diffusion, by analysing the mechanical strains on tissues on this process. These works open practical perspectives in medical field, in connexion with hospital doctors.

The talk of Martine Ben Amar at the ENS physics department colloquium on the 2nd of April 2025, which gather the physicists of the university, was entitled: “Immunity and cancer: a physical perspective for lung cancer carcinoma”, showing the input of the tools of physics to better understand complex biological mechanisms.

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Article on the ENS website (in french)

Author affiliation:
Laboratoire de physique de L’École normale supérieure (LPENS, ENS Paris/CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université de Paris)

Corresponding author: Stephan Fauve
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