Marcel Brillouin
Marcel Louis Brillouin (born December 19, 1854 in Melle (Deux-Sèvres) , † June 16, 1948 in Paris ) was a French physicist .
life and work
Shortly after the birth of Marcel Brillouin, his family moved to Paris, where he later attended the Lycée Condorcet . During the Franco-Prussian War , the family then fled to Melle again. After the war he attended the École normal supérieure from 1874 to 1878 and then became a physics assistant at the Collège de France , where he also received his doctorate in 1881 . He then spent several years organizing state exams for mathematicians ( concours d'agrégation ) at various locations (Nancy 1880–1882, Dijon, Toulouse) before returning to the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1888. From 1900 to 1931 he held a professorship for mathematical physics at the Collège de France. In 1921 he was elected a member of the Académie des Sciences . He was a participant in the first four Solvay conferences in Brussels.
His son was the physicist Léon Brillouin .
Jean Coulomb is one of his students .
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Marcel Brillouin. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brillouin, Marcel |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brillouin, Marcel Louis (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1854 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melle (Deux-Sèvres) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1948 |
| Place of death | Paris |