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Louis Eugène Félix Néel
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Louis Eugène Félix Néel (November 22, 1904 – November 17, 2000) was a French physicist born in Lyon. He was corecipient (with the Swedish astrophysicist Hannes Alfvén) of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his pioneering studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
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... en matière scientifique, on a souvent des prédécesseurs beaucoup plus anciens qu'on ne le pense a priori.
... in science, we often have predecessors much further back in time than we think a priori.
mentionning Pierre de Maricourt who thoroughly studied magnetic materials in the 13th century. In his Nobel Prize Banquet speech, December 10, 1970.
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Category:Nobel laureates in Physics
Category:People from Lyon
Category:1904 births
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Category:Nobel laureates from France