Anatole Abragam was born in Moscow on December 15, 1914. He died in Paris on June 8, 2011 at the age of 96.
A graduate of the École supérieure d'électricité, he was Director of Physics at the Commissariat pour l'énergie atomique from 1965 to 1970.
Appointed Professor at the Collège de France in 1960, he held the Nuclear Magnetism Chair until 1985.
Anatole Abragam was a member of the Académie des Sciences (elected in 1973).