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Louis Néel

1904 - 2000

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Louis Eugène Félix Néel (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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Néel has received more than 151,842 page views. His biography is available in 67 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Louis Néel is the 162nd most popular physicist (up from 183rd in 2019), the 682nd most popular biography from France (up from 850th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Physicist.

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

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  • 3.25

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Louis Néel ranks 162 out of 851. Before him are Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Hugh Everett III, Henry Moseley, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Klaus Fuchs, and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron. After him are Yang Chen-Ning, Kai Siegbahn, Zhores Alferov, Igor Kurchatov, Gerd Binnig, and Joseph Rotblat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Louis Néel ranks 23. Before him are Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Karl Brandt, René Lacoste, Pavel Cherenkov, Hans Albert Einstein, and Harry Martinson. After him are Glenn Miller, Cary Grant, Joan Crawford, Luis Carrero Blanco, Witold Gombrowicz, and John Hicks. Among people deceased in 2000, Louis Néel ranks 15. Before him are Alec Guinness, Stanley Matthews, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Vittorio Gassman, Abulfaz Elchibey, and Sirimavo Bandaranaike. After him are Lída Baarová, Gherman Titov, Konrad Emil Bloch, Giovanna of Italy, Erich Mielke, and Walter Matthau.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Néel ranks 682 out of 6,770. Before him are Gaston, Duke of Orléans (1608), Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans (1676), Ninon de l'Enclos (1620), Paul Broca (1824), Paul Dukas (1865), and Vincent Auriol (1884). After him are Gabriel Tarde (1843), Alexandre Cabanel (1823), Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963), Nicole Oresme (1323), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), and Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis Néel ranks 21. Before him are Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Paul Langevin (1872), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Jacques Charles (1763), Albert Fert (1938), and Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799). After him are Alain Aspect (1947), Edme Mariotte (1620), Gérard Mourou (1944), Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), and Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754).

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