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Louis Néel
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Louis Néel

1904 – 2000 · aged 96

French physicist (1904-2000)

Born
22 Nov 1904 · 3rd arrondissement of Lyon
Died
17 Nov 2000 · Brive-la-Gaillarde

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

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  1. 22 Nov 1904BornBorn in 3rd arrondissement of Lyon
  2. 1938AwardPrix Félix-Robin
  3. 1939 – 1945WarWorld War II
  4. 1948AwardBlondel Medal
  5. 1952AwardHolweck Prize
  6. 1963AwardKnight of the Order of Social Merit
  7. 1963AwardThree Physicists Prize
  8. 1965AwardCNRS Gold medal
  9. 1966AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
  10. 1970AwardNobel Prize in Physics
  11. 1978AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense
  12. 17 Nov 2000DiedDied in Brive-la-Gaillarde

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1904 – 2000).

  1. 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
  2. 1914 – 1918World War I
  3. 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
  4. 1917Balfour Declaration
  5. 1917February Revolution
  6. 1917October Revolution
  7. 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
  8. 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
  9. 1920Treaty of Versailles
  10. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  11. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  12. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  13. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  14. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1938Munich Agreement
  16. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  17. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  18. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  19. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  20. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  21. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  22. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  23. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  24. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  26. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  27. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  29. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  30. 1956Suez Crisis
  31. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  32. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  33. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  35. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  37. 1968Prague Spring
  38. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  39. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  40. 19741974 FIFA World Cup

Biography

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.

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