About Anatole Abragam
Lived 1914 – 2011 (aged 96). Anatole Abragam was a French physicist, engineer, theoretical physicist, professor, university teacher and nuclear physicist.
Anatole Abragam (15 December 1914 – 8 June 2011) was a French physicist who wrote The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism and made significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance. Originally from Griva, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925. From 1960 to 1985, he worked as a professor at the .
Awards and honors Abragam won the Fernand Holweck Medal and Prize in 1958. Abragam was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1974. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1982. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1983.
A building in CEA Saclay is named after him; Bâtiment Anatole Abragam.
Books
Abragam A & Bleaney B. Electron paramagnetic resonance of transition ions. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1970. Abragam A & Goldman M. Nuclear Magnetism: Order and Disorder. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1982.
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Who was Anatole Abragam?
French physicist (1914-2011)
When was Anatole Abragam born?
Anatole Abragam was born on 15 December 1914 in Grīva, Daugavpils.
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Anatole Abragam died on 8 June 2011 in Vitry-sur-Seine, Paris.
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Anatole Abragam was a physicist, engineer, theoretical physicist, professor, university teacher and nuclear physicist.
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Anatole Abragam was French.
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