[8] Jacques Blamont was born in Paris in France on 13 October 1926[9][10] and did his studies at the École Normale Supérieure[9] where he came in contact with the Nobel laureate, Alfred Kastler, who was serving the institution as a professorial chair.

[11] He graduated from École Normale Supérieure in 1948[6] and continued his studies at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as an associate of physical sciences.

[3][6][10] Blamont continued at CNRS for a year more as a research fellow[9] and joined the Aeronomy Service of the institution in 1957 where he became the deputy director in 1958.

[6] Blamont was credited with the discovery of turbopause in 1959, the interstellar wind in 1970, the hydrogen envelope of comets in 1971 and the polar noctilucent clouds in 1973.

[6][10] He was known to have made the measurement of the temperature of the neutral atmosphere from 100 to 500 km, the dynamic parameters of the mesopause region, and Einstein's general relativity redshift on the Sun for the first time.

[6] The image compression device developed by Blamont[10] is in use with various space agencies for planetary missions around the Moon, Mars and Titan.