Bernard Sapoval (30 October 1937 – 26 August 2020) was a French physicist.
[3] In the 1970s, he met Benoit Mandelbrot and began studying fractals, which he researched on the coast of Brittany.
[4] In 1997, he published Universalité et Fractales, Jeux d'enfants ou délits d'initié, which made fractal geometry more accessible to the general public and won him the Prix de la Culture scientifique in 1998.
[5] In 2003, he received the Grand Prix de l'innovation for his research on the fractal wall.
[7] Bernard Sapoval died on 26 August 2020 in Paris at the age of 82.