Born in Russia on December 15 1914. Died on June 8 2011.
Education and professional career
- Secondary education at Lycée Janson de Sailly
- 1932 : Bachelor's degree in Mathematics
- 1936 : Licencié ès Sciences (Sorbonne)
- 1937-1939 : Preparation of a thesis (unfinished) under the supervision of Francis Perrin
- 1939-1940 : Mobilized in the Army
- 1940-1944 : Freelance teacher in private schools
- 1944-1945 : FFI then voluntary enlisted in the Army
- 1945-1947 : Electricity college
- 1947-1980 : Career at the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
- 1947-1954 : Physicist
- 1954-1956 : Group leader
- 1956-1959 : Head of department
- 1959-1965 : Head of department,
- 1965-1970 : Director of Physics
- 1960-1985 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Nuclear Magnetism
- 1967 : President of the French Physical Society
- 1970-1980 : Director of Research
- 1973-2011 : Member of the Académie des Sciences
- 1974-2011 : Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1977-1980 : Vice-President of IUPAP
- 1977-2011 : Foreign Member of the National Academy of the United States
- 1981-2011 : Member of the Pontifical Academy
- 1983 : Foreign Member of the Royal Society of London
- 1985-2011 : Honorary Professor at the Collège de France