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Jean-Paul Richard is a Canadian physicist, academic and researcher. He is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Maryland. Richard's work has been focused on the detection of gravitational waves. He has contributed to the fields of low temperature gravitational wave detectors and their transducer systems. For his contributions to the field during the years 1965 to 1998, the University of Maryland recognized Richard as a pioneer in the field of Gravitational Wave research in a 2016 event "A celebration of Gravitational Waves".