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Louis Néel, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)

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Louis Néel

French physicist

Louis Eugène Félix Néel was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids.
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Nobel Prize in Physics

One of five prizes established in 1895 by Alfred Nobel

The Nobel Prize in Physics is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and…
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November 17

Day of the year

November 17 is the 321st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 44 days remain until the end of the year.
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