Jean Rouxel

Born in Malestroit (Morbihan), February 24 1935. Died in Nantes on March 19 1998.

Training and professional career

1957-1960 : Assistant chemistry teacher, then assistant chemistry teacher at Rennes Faculty of Science
1960-1961 : Senior lecturer. University of Bordeaux
1961 : Doctorate in Physical Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Hageumuller, Bordeaux University. " Sur deux nouvelles familles de composés de l'aluminium : les oxyhalogénures et thiohalogénines " and " Les méthodes physiques de mise en évidence des composés lacunaires "
1961-1962 : Trainee lecturer in inorganic chemistry. Bordeaux University
1962-1963 : Military service in Algeria and France
1963 : Founder of the Solid State Chemistry Laboratory in Nantes, which became the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes in 1988 and was renamed Institut des Matériaux Jean Rouxel in 1999
1964-1968 : Full Professor^2nd class, University of Nantes
1968-1971 : Professor without a Chair, University of Nantes
1971-1980 : Professor ^1st class (personal appointment)
1980-1991 : Professor, exceptional class
1986-1998 : Scientific advisor to Rhône-Poulenc
1988-1998 : Director of the Institut des Matériaux de Nantes (joint CNRS/Université de Nantes unit, replacing the Laboratoire de chimie de l'état solide, founded in 1963)
1991-1996 : Professor at the Institut Universitaire de France
1994-1995 : Professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon
1997-1998 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Solid State Chemistry

1974 : CNRS silver medal
1974 : Paul Pascal Prize from the Académie des Sciences
1974 : Prix Bardy de la Société Industrielle
1988 : Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur
1991 : Officer of the National Order of Merit
1992 : " Foreign Honorary Member " of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1992 : " Foreign Honorary Member " of the Indian National Science Academy
1993 : " Foreign Honorary Member " of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Delhi
1993 : Laureate of the Académie des Sciences et de la Société pour l'Encouragement de l'Industrie, Debye Award (A.C.S-Cornell), F.M.C Award (Princeton), Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis
1994 : Commandeur des Palmes Académiques
1997 : CNRS Gold Medal

Synthesis and characterization of numerous low-dimensional solids, with decisive contributions to understanding the stability of such edifices.
Significant contributions to the discovery and investigation of the extraordinary properties of inorganic chains, mainly in the field of charge density waves.
Study of incommensurable structures and their properties.
Band structure-chemistry relationship (including the role of density of states).
Anion-cation redox competition in the solid state.
Orbital and energetic characterization of anionic polymerization mechanisms in solids.
Jean Rouxel is the author of 7 patents, mainly concerning batteries and electrodes.