Louis Eugène Félix Néel Quotes

Louis Eugène Félix Néel ForMemRS was a French physicist born in Lyon.

✵ 22. November 1904 – 17. November 2000
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Louis Eugène Félix Néel Quotes

“… in science, we often have predecessors much further back in time than we think a priori.”

... en matière scientifique, on a souvent des prédécesseurs beaucoup plus anciens qu'on ne le pense a priori.
mentionning Pierre de Maricourt who thoroughly studied magnetic materials in the 13th century. In his Nobel Prize Banquet speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1970/neel-speech.html, December 10, 1970.

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