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Louis Néel

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Also known as Louis Neel, Louis Eugène Felix Néel

French physicist (1904-2000)

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Louis Néel was a physicist born on November 22, 1904, and died on November 17, 2000. He was recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Physics collection, and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Néel received one Nobel Prize. He also had an Erdős number of 5.

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1970

    “for fundamental work and discoveries concerning antiferromagnetism and ferrimagnetism which have led to important applications in solid state physics”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Félix
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of death
Brive-la-Gaillarde
Occupation
researcher
Languages spoken
French
Academic degree
doctorate
Doctoral advisor
Pierre Weiss
Field of work
solid-state physics
Conflict
World War II
Image
Louis Néel 1970b.jpg
Work location
Grenoble
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Commons category
Louis Néel
date of birth
1904-11-22
date of death
2000-11-17
Erdős number
5
name in native language
Louis Néel
ethnic group
French
birth name
Louis Eugène Félix Néel
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WikiProject Mathematics
interested in
physics
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Encyclopedic overview

Louis Eugène Félix Néel ( French: [neɛl]; 22 November 1904 – 17 November 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.

Biography

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