Born in Russia on December 15, 1914. Died on June 8, 2011.
Education and Professional Career
- High school at Lycée Janson de Sailly
- 1932: High school diploma in mathematics
- 1936: Bachelor of Science (Sorbonne)
- 1937–1939: Worked on a dissertation (unfinished) under the supervision of Francis Perrin
- 1939–1940: Called to serve in the Army
- 1940–1944: Private tutor in the private education sector
- 1944–1945: Served in the FFI, then enlisted as a volunteer in the Army
- 1945–1947: École Supérieure d’Électricité
- 1947–1980: Career at the French Atomic Energy Commission
- 1947–1954: Physicist
- 1954–1956: Group Leader
- 1956–1959: Division Chief
- 1959–1965: Department Head,
- 1965–1970: Director of Physics
- 1960–1985: Professor at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair of Nuclear Magnetism
- 1967: President of the French Physical Society
- 1970–1980: Research Director
- 1973–2011: Member of the French Academy of 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 Sciences 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