Paul Langevin

French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)

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Paul Langevin was a French physicist and thinker who made important contributions to science during the late 1800s and early 1900s, while also writing about the nature of scientific knowledge and improving how science was taught. His work helped advance our understanding of physics during a transformative period in the field, and his ideas about science and education influenced French intellectual life.

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Born: 1872
Died: 1946
Works: 14

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Henri Poincaré
Hommage à Paul Langevin
Thèses présentées a la faculté des sciences de l'Université de Paris pour obtenir le grade de docteur ès sciences physiques
Œuvres scientifiques
Les Méthodes modernes de guerre et protection des populations civiles

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Paul Langevin (23 January 1872 – 19 December 1946) was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots. Being a public opponent of fascism in the 1930s resulted in his arrest and being held under house arrest by the Vichy government for most of World War II. Langevin was also president of the Human Rights League (LDH) from 1944 to 1946, having recently joined the French Communist Party.

He was a doctoral student of Pierre Curie and later a lover of widowed Marie Curie. He is also known for his two US patents with Constantin Chilowsky in 1916 and 1917 involving ultrasonic submarine detection. He is entombed at the Panthéon.