Hervé This

Hervé This
The chemist Hervé This
Born5 June 1955 (1955-06-05) (age 70)
CitizenshipFrench
Known forMolecular and physical gastronomy
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsInstitut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Hervé This (French: [ɛʁve tis]; born 5 June 1955 in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, sometimes named Hervé This-Benckhard, or Hervé This vo Kientza) is a French physical chemist who works for the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique at AgroParisTech, in Paris, France. His main area of scientific research is molecular and physical gastronomy, that is the science that studies culinary transformations).