Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel ForMemRS (born February 11, 1921 Paris) is a French physicist and material scientist.[1]
Life
His great-grandfather Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grandfather Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the National School of Mines from 1937 to 1965.
He studied at the Ecole polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris from 1946 to 1948. He graduated from the University of Paris with a Licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard. He graduated from Bristol University with a PhD in 1952, where he studied with Nevill F. Mott, and a Doctorat d'Etat in Paris in 1954.
He was assistant professor at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1956, then full professor of Solid State Physics at Paris-Sud 11 University from 1959 to 1989. He authored more than 200 journal articles.
He was the president of the Société française de physique, the European Physical Society,[2] and the French Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1994.
He has been awarded the gold medal of the French CNRS in 1970, elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences,, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences [3] and the Royal Society.[2][4]
Works
- Les dislocations (Paris, Gauthier Villars, 1956, 2nd ed. Dislocations, Pergamon, 1964)
References
- ↑ "Jacques Friedel introduction". Authors.library.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "the "Leonardo da Vinci" Award 2010". Eurasc. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
- ↑ http://www.kva.se/en/Members/. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Laboratoire de Physique des Solides - UMR 8502 - Jacques Friedel". Lps.u-psud.fr. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
External links
- "Jacques Friedel", French wikipedia