Raymond Daudel

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Raymond Daudel (born February 2, 1920 in Paris , † June 20, 2006 in Ivry-sur-Seine ) was a French theoretical physical chemist ( quantum chemistry ). With Bernard Pullman he was a pioneer of quantum chemistry in France.

Life

Daudel graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI) in 1942 and was then assistant to Irène Joliot-Curie and the physician Antoine Lacassagne at the Radium Institute in Paris. In 1944 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on chemical isotope separation of radioactive elements that were formed when neutrons were bombarded. After a lecture by Louis de Broglie , he turned to the application of quantum mechanics in chemistry and founded the Center de Chimie Théorique de France (CCTF) with the support of leading scientists (also from Joliot-Curie, Lacassagne and de Broglie) in 1944 with the aim the application of wave mechanics not only in chemistry, but also in medicine. In 1954 it became the Institut de Mécanique Ondulatoire Appliquée à la Chimie et à la Radioactivité of the CNRS and in 1957 the Center de Mécanique Ondulatoire Appliquée (CMOA). Daudel dealt there particularly with biochemical applications. Leading scientists in the 1960s were Carl Moser , who was mainly concerned with the quantum chemistry of small systems (he founded the Center Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire, CECAM in the 1960s), and Roland Lefebvre , who was concerned with the interpretation of NMR spectra and Savo Bratos (interpretation of infrared spectra in the liquid phase, he founded the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique des Liquides (PTL) in the 1960s). Another spin-off was the Laboratoire de Dynamique des Interactions Moléculaires (DIM), later the Laboratoire de Chimie Théorique (LCT), founded by Marcel Allavena in 1984 . The CMOA existed until 1984 when the remaining members moved to the Laboratoire de Chimie Physique (LCP) of Christiane Bonnelle (near the Curie Institute).

He is also known for his textbook on quantum chemistry, which was first published in the 1950s (also in the USA). He also wrote popular science books, for example with Luc Montagnier on HIV .

He was a professor at the Sorbonne . In 1978 he became a corresponding member of the Académie des sciences .

He was one of the founders of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science and President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts . In 1973 he organized the first International Congress in Quantum Chemistry in Menton .

Daudel was an officer in the Legion of Honor , the Ordre national du mérite and the Palmes Académiques . He was honorary doctor in Leuven, Uppsala and Barcelona.

In July 1944 he married the scientist Pascaline Daudel (nee Salzedo), who worked at the Institut Curie and also published with him. She also introduced him to mountaineering and sparked his interest in traveling to exotic countries and exotic art. Pascaline Daudel died of cancer in 1976.

Fonts

  • with Robert Potier: La chimie théorique et ses rapports avec la théorie corpusculaire moderne, Paris: Hermann 1943
  • with Pascaline Daudel: Atomes, molécules et lumière; Synthèse générale des phénomènes électriques et optiques développée dans le cadre de la nouvelle théorie de la lumière de Louis de Broglie, La Jeune Parque, 1946
  • The fundamentals of theoretical chemistry. Wave Mechanics applied to the Study of Atoms and Molecules, Pergamon 1968 (first Gauthier Villars 1956)
  • Quantum theory of chemical reactivity, Reidel 1983 (French original Gauthier Villars 1967)
  • Electronic structure of molecules: diatomic molecules, small molecules, saturated hydrocarbons, conjugated molecules, molecules of biochemical interest, Pergamon Press, Vieweg 1966
  • with Pascaline Daudel: Chemical carcinogenesis and molecular biology, Wiley 1966
  • with G. Leroy, D. Peeters, M. Sana: Quantum chemistry, Wiley 1983 (first English edition Interscience 1959 with R. Lefebvre, C. Moser)
  • Editor with others: Quantum theory of chemical reactions, Dordrecht: Reidel, 3 volumes, 1980 to 1982
  • Vision moléculaire du Monde, Hachette 1981
  • L'Empire des Molécules, Hachette 1991
    • English translation: The realm of molecules, McGraw Hill 1993
  • with Luc Montagnier : Le SIDA (AIDS), Flammarion 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lacassagne headed the Radium Institute with Joliot-Curie. He discovered the cancer-causing effects of female sex hormones.
  2. ↑ biographical data, publications and Academic pedigree of Raymond Daudel at academictree.org, accessed on 29 January 2018th
  3. ↑ The name CMOA continues to exist in an international non-profit organization for the exchange of knowledge and the organization of congresses, founded by Jean Maruani.
  4. ^ List of members since 1666: Letter D. Académie des sciences, accessed on November 4, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Daudel, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French chemist
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 2006
Place of death Ivry-sur-Seine