Joseph Davidovits

In the USA, and consequently in the English scientific journals, my invention of the geopolymer chemistry in the years 1970-80 is narrated like a fairy tale. According to it, it was during my study of the pyramids of Egypt that, Eureka, I got this intuition. In America, the fundamental and applied researches on [...]

Last year, the Nobel Prize of medicine and physiology 2005 was awarded jointly to Barry Marshall and Robin Warren, two Australian researchers who discovered the role of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori in the formation of stomach or duodenum ulcers. Before Marshall and Warren identify this bacterium, at the beginning of the Eighties, way of life [...]

It is with sorrow that I learned that my friend Georges Grimal died at the age of 98 years. The majority of our scientific colleagues, engineers and students, know at least one of his works of Art created with geopolymer.

Continuing my visits to the Czech scientific institutions, I met with Professor Miroslav Verner, professor of egyptology, director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology.

The oldest prehistoric statue, the Venus from Dolni Vestonice (Czech Republic), made out of a ceramic of the geopolymeric type, manufactured at 300-400°C, in an open wood fire.

Geopolymer applications and archaeology summarized in a 9 min. interview (in English)

2006 : mes conférences, my lectures, meine Vorträge

Recents articles parus dans les magazines européens : l’ÉGYPTE (France, Belgique), ZEITGEIST (Deutschland), SVET VEDY (Czech Republik)

mes conférences, my lectures, meine Vorträge

My conference on the Egyptian pyramids built with agglomerated stone and the reactions of muslim scientists.

The misleading datation of a pyramid stone at University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands.

Milestones in the Development of Geopolymeric Chemistry.

Detailed biography that may interest people who want to know more.