Born in Malestroit (Morbihan) on February 24, 1935. Died on March 19, 1998, in Nantes.
Education and Professional Career
- 1957–1960: Assistant lab instructor in chemistry, then associate lab director in chemistry at the Faculty of Sciences in Rennes
- 1960–1961: Tenured laboratory director. University of Bordeaux
- 1961: Ph.D. in Physical Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Hageumuller, University of Bordeaux. “On Two New Families of Aluminum Compounds: Oxyhalides and Thiohalogenides” and “Physical Methods for the Detection of Missing Compounds”
- 1961–1962: Trainee Assistant Professor in Inorganic Chemistry. University of Bordeaux
- 1962–1963: Military service in Algeria and France
- 1963: Founder of the Solid-State Chemistry Laboratory in Nantes, which became the Nantes Institute of Materials in 1988 and was renamed the Jean Rouxel Institute of Materials in 1999
- 1964–1968: Full Professor, Second Class, University of Nantes
- 1968–1971: Professor without a chair, University of Nantes
- 1971–1980: First-class professor (tenured in his own right)
- 1980–1991: Professor in the exceptional class
- 1986–1998: Scientific Advisor to Rhône-Poulenc
- 1988–1998: Director of the Nantes Institute of Materials (a joint CNRS/University of Nantes unit) which replaced the Solid-State Chemistry Laboratory, 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, holder of the Chair of Solid-State Chemistry