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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 140,973 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Louis Néel is the 183rd most popular physicist (up from 198th in 2019), the 852nd most popular biography from France (up from 942nd in 2019) and the 22nd 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 183 out of 717. Before him are James Cronin, Charles H. Townes, Emilio Segrè, Edme Mariotte, Robert Hofstadter, and Klaus von Klitzing. After him are Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Richard E. Taylor, Giorgio Parisi, Gerd Binnig, and Yang Chen-Ning.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Louis Néel ranks 38. Before him are Hans Morgenthau, Ernst Mayr, Willem de Kooning, Wendell Meredith Stanley, Joseph Campbell, and George F. Kennan. After him are Nikolai Ostrovsky, Odilo Globočnik, Antonín Novotný, Alejo Carpentier, Clifford D. Simak, and George Balanchine. Among people deceased in 2000, Louis Néel ranks 23. Before him are Carl Barks, Gherman Titov, Giovanna of Italy, Pierre Trudeau, Erich Mielke, and Tommaso Buscetta. After him are Jason Robards, Empress Kōjun, Steve Reeves, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Frederick Herzberg, and Arkan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Néel ranks 852 out of 6,011. Before him are Marcel Carné (1906), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Christina of Lorraine (1565), Jules Ferry (1832), Jérôme Lalande (1732), and Émile Borel (1871). After him are Jacques Callot (1592), Balthus (1908), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Stéphane Audran (1932), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940), and Charles III of Navarre (1361).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Louis Néel ranks 22. Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (1799), Albert Fert (1938), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Jacques Charles (1763), Hans Bethe (1906), and Edme Mariotte (1620). After him are Claude-Louis Navier (1785), Pierre-Gilles de Gennes (1932), Gérard Mourou (1944), Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier (1754), Antoine César Becquerel (1788), and Paul-Jacques Curie (1855).

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