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Authorised form of nameAbragam; Anatole (1914 - 2011)
Dates1914 - 2011
NationalityFrench
Date of birth15/12/1914
Date of death08/06/2011
OccupationPhysicist
ActivityEducation:
University of Paris (1933-1936)
Career:
Significant contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance
Served in Second World War. After, resumed his studies at the Ecole Superieur d'Electicite and subsequently obtained his Ph. D from Univsersity of Oxford (1950) under supervision of Maurice Pryce FRS. Professor at the College de France (1960-1985)
Honorary Fellow of Merton College Oxford (1976); Magdalen College Oxford (1976); Jesus College Oxford (1976)
Foreign Honorary Member of teh American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1974)
Awarded the Lorenz medal (1982)
Membership categoryForeign Member
Date of election30/06/1983
Age at election68
RSActivityLectures:
Claude Bernard 1986
RelationshipsSupervisor Maurice Pryce FRS; co-worker Bevis Bleaney FRS;
PublishedWorks'The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism' 1961 Clarendon Press; Abragam and Bleaney B 'Electron paramagnetic resonance of trnsitions' 1970 Oxford University Press; 'Time Reversal, an autobiography' 1989 Oxford University Press
SourceReferences:
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 2. Progress from 1945 to 1970' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 323 - 330
B Bleaney and O V Lounasmaa, 'Nuclear orientation and nuclear cooling experiments in Oxford and Helsinki. Part 3. Progress from 1975 to 2001' in NR 2003 vol 57 pp 331 - 344
CodeNA3892
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
PIF/A/2Personal information file: Anatole Abragam1983-2005
EC/1983/41Abragam, Anatole: certificate of election to the Royal Society1982
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