Denis Bartolo and Étienne Brasselet, winners of the 2019 Louis Ancel Award

Since 1922, the Louis Ancel Award is granted every year by the French Society of Physics. It rewards a French physicist for his/her work in condensed matter physics. The jury of the Ancel Award, awarded by the Condensed Matter Division of the French Society of Physics, reviewed excellent nominations again this year, including two exceptional ones that it did not consider appropriate to decide between them, as they are so close in quality. The jury unanimously wanted the Ancel Award to be awarded jointly to two winners: Denis Bartolo and Étienne Brasselet. Denis Bartolo is a professor of physics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Lyon, France. He studied at ESPCI Paris and obtained a PhD in physics from Pierre and Marie Curie University. In 2006, he was appointed assistant professor at Paris Diderot University, and joined ENS de Lyon.