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Thomas W. Ebbesen is a physical chemist born in Oslo, Norway. He graduated from Oberlin College, USA, and obtained his PhD from the Université P. et M. Curie in Paris, France. He worked at the Notre-Dame Radiation Laboratory, the NEC Basic Research Laboratories in Tsukuba, Japan, and the NEC Research Institute in Princeton, before becoming a professor at the University of Strasbourg in 1999. He is currently head of the Fondation Jean-Marie-Lehn (Foundation for Exploratory Research in Chemistry) and of the Institut d'études avancées de Strasbourg, which he founded in 2012 and where he holds the chair of physical chemistry of light-matter interactions. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters and a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences. His awards include the 2014 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience for his transformative contributions to nano-optics, and more recently, in 2019, the CNRS Gold Medal, France's most prestigious scientific award.

See also his Wikipedia page.