AKA Louis-Eugène-Félix Néel

Born: 22-Nov-1904
Birthplace: Lyon, France
Died: 17-Nov-2000
Location of death: Brive-Corrèze, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Physicist

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Magnetic properties of solids

Military service: French Army (WWII)

Wife: Hélène Hourticq (m. 1931, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Marie Françoise
Daughter: Marguerite
Son: Pierre

    University: Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris (1924-28)
    University: PhD, University of Strasbourg (1932)
    Professor: University of Strasbourg (1937-45)
    Professor: Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (1945-)

    Nobel Prize for Physics 1970 (with Hannes Alfvén)
    Croix de Guerre 1940
    Russian Academy of Sciences 1959
    Royal Society 1966
    American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1966

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