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

Abstract

• 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.