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Louis Néel

1904 - 2000

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Néel is the 144th most popular physicist (up from 162nd in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from France (up from 682nd in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Physicist.

Louis Néel is most famous for his discovery of the magnetic domains in ferromagnetic materials.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Néel ranks 144 out of 851. Before him are George Gamow, C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, Pavel Cherenkov, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, and Roger Penrose. After him are Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, John Bardeen, Nicolaas Bloembergen, and George Paget Thomson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Louis Néel ranks 18. Before him are B. F. Skinner, Ève Curie, George Gamow, Johnny Weissmuller, Pavel Cherenkov, and Harry Martinson. After him are Graham Greene, Alexei Kosygin, Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, Odilo Globočnik, and René Lacoste. Among people deceased in 2000, Louis Néel ranks 12. Before him are Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, Habib Bourguiba, Emil Zátopek, Arkan, Victor Borge, and Alec Guinness. After him are Roger Vadim, Konrad Emil Bloch, Charles M. Schulz, Pierre Trudeau, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, and Lída Baarová.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Néel ranks 478 out of 6,770. Before him are Lazare Carnot (1753), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Albert Lebrun (1871), Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), and Pytheas (-380). After him are Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Roger Vadim (1928), Fernand Léger (1881), Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636), and Charles Nicolle (1866).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis Néel ranks 16. Before him are Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), Hans Bethe (1906), and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799). After him are Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), Edmond Becquerel (1820), and Edme Mariotte (1620).

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