Jacques Friedel

Jacques Friedel ForMemRS[1] (French: [fʁidɛl]; 11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a French physicist and material scientist.[4][5]

Jacques Friedel
Friedel in June 2011
Born(1921-02-11)February 11, 1921
DiedAugust 27, 2014(2014-08-27) (aged 93)[1]
Alma mater
Known forTheory of transition metals
Theory of dislocations
Friedel oscillations
Friedel sum rule
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics[1][2][3]
Doctoral advisorNevill Francis Mott

Education

Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school.[6] He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris from 1946 to 1948. He graduated from the University of Paris with a Licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard. He graduated from the University of Bristol with a PhD in 1952, where he studied with Nevill Francis Mott,[7] and a Doctorat d'Etat in Paris in 1954.

Career

He was assistant professor at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1956, then full professor of Solid State Physics (from 1959 to 1989) at the University of Paris-Sud where he co-founded the Laboratory of Solid State Physics. He authored more than 200 journal articles.

He was the president of the Société française de physique, the European Physical Society,[8] and the French Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1994.

Awards and honors

Friedel was awarded the gold medal of the French CNRS in 1970, elected as a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[9] and a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1988.[1][8][10] He was a fellow of American Physical Society and fellow of European Physical Society. He received in 1964 the Holweck Prize and in 1988 the Von Hippel Award.[11] He was appointed a Knight of the Légion d'Honneur, promoted to Officer and subsequently to Commander on 31 March 1989 and to Grand Officer on 30 December 1995. He was promoted to Grand Cross on 14 July 2013.[12][13]

Personal life

Friedel's great-grandfather Charles Friedel was an organic chemist and crystallographer at Paris-Sorbonne University, his grandfather Georges Friedel worked on liquid crystals, and his father Edmond Friedel was the director of the National School of Mines from 1937 to 1965.

References
  1. Sutton, Adrian P.; Duparc, Olivier Hardouin (2015). "Jacques Friedel 11 February 1921 — 27 August 2014". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. Royal Society publishing. 61: 123–143. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2015.0020. ISSN 0080-4606.
  2. Friedel, Jacques (1956). Les dislocations. Monographies de chimie physique (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Gauthier-Villars. Retrieved 2014-03-24.
  3. Friedel, Jacques (1994-04-01). Graine de mandarin (in French). Paris: Odile Jacob. ISBN 2738102549. Retrieved 2014-02-15.
  4. "Jacques Friedel introduction". Authors.library.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  5. "Jacques Friedel (1921-2014), pionnier de la physique des solides". Le Monde.fr. 2014-08-29.
  6. "Quelques Anciens Celebres". Hattemer. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  7. Pippard, B. (1998). "Sir Nevill Francis Mott, C. H. 30 September 1905-8 August 1996". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. 44: 315–328. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1998.0021.
  8. "the "Leonardo da Vinci" Award 2010". Eurasc. Archived from the original on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  9. "Members of the Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien".
  10. "Laboratoire de Physique des Solides - UMR 8502 - Jacques Friedel". Lps.u-psud.fr. Retrieved 2011-11-21.
  11. "1988 Von Hippel Award, Materials Research Society".
  12. DECRET ORDRE DE LA LEGION D'HONNEUR Décret du 30 décembre 1995 portant élévation à la dignité de grand officier
  13. Décret du 12 juillet 2013 portant élévation aux dignités de grand'croix et de grand officier (fr)

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