Louis Leprince-Ringuet

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Louis Leprince-Ringuet

Louis Leprince-Ringuet (born March 27, 1901 in Alès , † December 23, 2000 in Paris ) was a French experimental physicist (nuclear physics, elementary particle physics), telecommunications engineer and popular science non-fiction author.

career

Leprince-Ringuet was the son of Félix Leprince-Ringuet, director of the École nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy . He studied from 1920 at the École polytechnique and then at the École supérieure d'électricité (Supélec) and at the École nationale supérieure des télécommunications (today Télécom ParisTech ) with a degree in 1925. He then worked as a telecommunications engineer in the field of submarine cables . In 1929 he worked in Maurice de Broglie's laboratory , where his interest in nuclear physics arose. In 1933 he received his doctorate. From 1936 to 1969 he was professor of physics at the École polytechnique, where he founded the Laboratoire de physique nucléaire et des hautes énergies (Laboratory for Nuclear Energy and High Energy Physics) in 1936 (named Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet after him from 2002) and from 1959 to 1959 1972 as professor for nuclear physics at the Collège de France .

As a physicist, among other things, he investigated cosmic radiation in the 1930s (partly with Pierre Auger ) using a cloud chamber, which he later installed in the Alps (laboratory at Aiguille du Midi ) and in the Pyrenees in the 1950s . Afterwards, his group turned to direct particle accelerator experiments in Saclay and at CERN . His laboratory at the École polytechnique, which at times employed over 200 scientists, was taken over by Bernard Gregory in 1971 and that at the Collège de France by Marcel Froissart in 1972 .

He has written numerous popular science books and has also received a literary award (Prix Ève Delacroix 1958). He also dealt with the relationship between religion and science. In 1949 he was president of the Union catholique des scientifiques français and since 1961 a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences .

He was a member of the Académie des Sciences (1949) and the Académie française (1966). In 1967 he was accepted into the American Philosophical Society . He received several prizes from the Académie des Sciences and the French Physical Society, such as the Prix ​​Félix Robin in 1942 . In 1957 he was President of the French Physical Society. He was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor , commander of the Palmes académiques and received the Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite .

1951 to 1971 he was commissioner of the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA).

Honorary positions and passions

As a committed European, he was president of the organization of the French Mouvement européen ( European Movement International ) from 1974 to 1990 . 1970 to 1983 he was president of the Jeunesses musicales de France (musical youth of France). Other interests of Leprince-Ringuet were painting and tennis.

Fonts

  • Les Transmutations artificielles , Hermann 1933
  • Les Rayons cosmiques, les Mésons , Albin Michel 1949
  • with Félix Leprince-Ringuet Les Inventeurs célèbres , 1952
  • Des Atomes et des hommes , Fayard 1956
  • with others: Les Grandes Découvertes du XX siecle , Larousse 1958
  • Editor of the popular science series Le Bilan de la Science , from 1963
  • with others: La Science contemporaine. Les Sciences physiques et leurs applications , 2 volumes, Larousse 1965
  • Science et Bonheur des hommes , Flammarion 1973
  • Leprince-Ringuet - Le bonheur de chercher , interview with Jean Puyo, Le centurion, 1976
  • Le Grand Merdier ou l'espoir pour demain? , Flammarion 1978
  • La Potion magique , Flammarion 1981
  • L'Aventure de l'électricité , Flammarion 1982 (Flammarion)
  • Les Pieds dans le plat , Flammarion 1985
  • Noces de diamant avec l'atome , Flammarion 1991
  • Foi de physicien , Bayard 1996

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Louis Leprince-Ringuet. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 27, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Leprince-Ringuet, Louis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Alès
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2000
Place of death Paris