Brillouin, Marcel Louis

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Born: Dec 19, 1854 AD
Died: 1948 AD, at 93 years of age.

Nationality: French
Categories: Physicists


1854 - Born on December 19th in Melle, Deux-Sèvres, France. French physicist.

1874-1878 - He entered and graduated from École Normale Supérieure.

1881 - Brillouin was a physics assistant at the Collège de France while he worked for his doctorate in mathematics and physics which was awarded.

1888 - Held posts as assistant professor of physics at Nancy, Dijon and Toulouse before returning to Paris to the École Normale Supérieure.

1900 - Brillouin was Professor of Mathematical Physics at the Collège de France.

         - He built a new model of the Eötvös balance.

1921 - He was elected to the Académie des Science.

         - Marcel Brillouin worked on topics ranging from history of science to the physics of the earth and the atom.

1948 - Died on June 16th.
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