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Paul Langevin was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation. He was one of the founders of the Comité de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots. Being a public opponent of fascism in the 1930s resulted in his arrest and being held under house arrest by the Vichy government for most…

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science · French physicist (1872–1946) · physicist · chemist · philosopher of science · pedagogue · university teacher · also Paul Langevin, Langevin

Born 23 January 1872 · Died 19 December 1946 · Q25320

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Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1946).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1946).
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1946· 5 entries

Dec 19, 1946Documented record86% confidence

Died 1946-12-19.

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Jun 15, 1946Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1946).

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Jun 15, 1946Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour (1946).

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1946Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Two years after living to see the Liberation of Paris

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Jan 1, 1946Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: funeral.

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1944· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1944Documented record93% confidence

Career landmark: president (1944–1946).

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1940· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1940Documented record84% confidence

Won Copley Medal (1940).

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1938· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1938Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1938–1946).

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1936· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1936Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1936–1946).

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1934· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1934Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: founder (1934–1939).

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1933· 1 entry

1933Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Had a son with physicist Eliane Montel (1898–1993), Paul-Gilbert Langevin, who became a renowned musicologist

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1930· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1930Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (1930).

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Jan 1, 1930Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: president (1930–1933).

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1928· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1928Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1928).

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1925· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1925Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: director (1925–1946).

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1924· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1924Documented record84% confidence

Awarded La Caze Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1924).

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1920· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1920Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1920).

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1917· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1917Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Guthrie Lecture (1917).

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1916· 3 entries

1916Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

And 1917 involving ultrasonic submarine detection

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Lord Ernest Rutherford, working in the UK with his former McGill University PhD student Robert William Boyle, revealed that they were developing a quartz piezoelectric detector for submarine detection

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1916Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

And 1917, Paul Langevin and Chilowsky filed two US patents disclosing the first ultrasonic submarine detector using an electrostatic method (singing condenser) for one patent and thin quartz crystals for the other

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1915· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1915Documented record84% confidence

Won Hughes Medal (1915).

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1910· 1 entry

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Reportedly had an affair with the then-widowed Marie Curie; some decades later, their respective grandchildren, grandson Michel Langevin and granddaughter Hélène Langevin-Joliot married one another

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1909· 2 entries

Jan 1, 1909Documented record84% confidence

Career landmark: professor (1909–1946).

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1909Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Was appointed to the Chair of General and Experimental Physics at the Collège de France, where he remained until his death in 1946

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1901· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1901Documented record84% confidence

Awarded Saintour Prize (1901).

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1901Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

Langevin became a preparator in the Physics Teaching Laboratory at the University of Paris, where he received his Ph

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1898· 1 entry

1898Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

Married Emma Jeanne Desfosses, and together they had four children, Jean, André, Madeleine and Hélène

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1897· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1897Documented record84% confidence

Studied at École Normale Supérieure (1894–1897).

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1893· 1 entry

Jan 1, 1893Documented record84% confidence

Studied at ESPCI Paris, PSL University (1888–1893).

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1872· 1 entry

Jan 23, 1872Documented record86% confidence

Born 1872-01-23.

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