Léon Nicolas Brillouin (August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He was born in Sèvres (near Paris), France. His father, Marcel Brillouin, grandfather, Éleuthère Mascart, and great-grandfather, Charles Briot, were physicists as well. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid state physics, and information theory.
From 1908 to 1912, Brillouin studied physics at the École Normale Su...
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Léon Nicolas Brillouin (August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He was born in Sèvres (near Paris), France. His father, Marcel Brillouin, grandfather, Éleuthère Mascart, and great-grandfather, Charles Briot, were physicists as well. He made contributions to quantum mechanics, radio wave propagation in the atmosphere, solid state physics, and information theory.
From 1908 to 1912, Brillouin studied physics at the École Normale Supérieure, in Paris. From 1911 he studied under Jean Perrin until he left for the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU), in 1912. At LMU, he studied theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld. Just a few months before Brillouin’s arrival at LMU, Max von Laue had conducted his experiment showing X-ray diffraction in a crystal lattice. In 1913, he went back to France to study at the University of Paris and it was in this year that Niels Bohr submitted his first paper on the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom. From 1914 until 1919, during...
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