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Thibault Damour
Thibault
Damour
is a
French physicist
.
He is a
professor
of
theoretical physics
at the
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
since
1989
.
An expert in
general relativity
, he has long
taught
this theory at the
École Normale Supérieure
. He contributed greatly to the
understanding
of
gravitational waves
from
compact
binary systems
, and with
Alessandra Buonanno
, he
invented
the "effective one-body"
approach
to solving the orbital
trajectories
of
binary black holes
. He is also a
specialist
in
string theory
.
