Paul Langevin
1872 – 1946 · aged 74
French physicist, philosopher of science and pedagogue (1872-1946)
- Born
- 23 Jan 1872 · Paris
- Died
- 19 Dec 1946 · Paris
Life timeline
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- 23 Jan 1872BornBorn in Paris
- 1901AwardSaintour Prize
- 1909 – 1946RoleProfessor
- 1915AwardHughes Medal
- 1917AwardGuthrie Lecture
- 1920AwardCommander of the Order of the British Empire
- 1924AwardLa Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences
- 1925 – 1946RoleDirector
- 1928AwardForeign Member of the Royal Society
- 1930AwardCommander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword
- 1930 – 1933RolePresident
- 1934 – 1939RoleFounder
- 1936 – 1946RolePresident
- 1938 – 1946RolePresident
- 1939RoleFounder
- 1940AwardCopley Medal
- 1944 – 1946RolePresident
- 1946AwardCommander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- 1946AwardGrand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- 19 Dec 1946DiedDied in Paris
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1872 – 1946).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
Biography
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.
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