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RefNoEC/1988/43
Previous numbersCert XXII, 140
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TitleFriedel, Jacques: certificate of election to the Royal Society
Date1986
DescriptionCertificate of Candidate for Election to Foreign Membership. Citation typed
CitationJacques Friedel is the senior theoretical solid state physicist in France. His work has had a profound influence on our understanding of the behaviour of electrons in solids particularly (a) the resonance theory to describe electrons in transition metals and their alloys, and (b) the potentials around impurities in metals with the special sum rule obeyed by them. He has also made very significant contributions across an extraordinarily broad spectrum of solid state physics, including magnetism, electron transport, liquid and disordered metals, dislocation structure and mechanical properties of solids. He is an author of a famous text on the subject of dislocations.
In addition to his great scientific contributions, it must be added that he reconstructed French physics after the war and is more than any other person responsible for the excellent health of French physics and of French solid state physics in particular.
He is a Member of the French Academy of Sciences. Foreign Honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the Royal Academy of Sciences Stockholm, of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforschung Leopoldina, of the Societe Royal des Sciences de Liege, of the Institute of Physics of the Max Planck Institute.
Doctor Honoris causa: Bristol University: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Holweck prize (Institute of Physics and French Physical Society) Gold Medal of the French Comite National de la Recherche Scientifique; Dannie Heineman Preis of the Academy of Sciences of Gottingen; Gold Medal of the Acta Metallurgica; Humer Rothery award of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering.
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CodePersonNameDates
NA2124Friedel; Jacques (1921 - 2014)1921 - 2014
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