Louis Leprince-Ringuet
Louis Leprince Ringuet - ( born March 27, 1901 in Alès, † December 23, 2000 in Paris) was a French experimental physicist ( nuclear physics, elementary particle physics ), telecommunications engineer and popular science fiction book author.
Career
Leprince Ringuet - was the son of Félix Leprince Ringuet -, the director of the École nationale supérieure des mines de Nancy. He studied from 1920 at the École Polytechnique and the École Supérieure d' then at Electricité ( Supélec ) and at the École nationale supérieure for Telecommunications (now Télécom ParisTech ) with the conclusion of 1925. Afterwards he worked as a telecommunications engineer in the field of submarine cables. In 1929 he worked in the laboratory of Maurice de Broglie, where his interest in nuclear physics was born. In 1933 he received his doctorate. From 1936 to 1969 he was polytechnique professor of physics at the École where he 1936, the Laboratoire de physique Nucléaire et des Hautes énergies ( Laboratory of Nuclear Energy and High Energy Physics ) founded (since 2002 named after him Laboratoire Leprince- Ringuet ) and from 1959 to 1972 as a professor of nuclear physics at the Collège de France.
As a physicist, he examined, among others, in the 1930s, the cosmic rays (some with Pierre Auger ), among others, with a fog chamber. , He later also in the 1950s in the Alpine installed ( laboratory at the Aiguille du Midi ) and the Pyrenees After his group direct Teilchenbeschleunigerexperimenten turned to Saclay and CERN. His laboratory at the École polytechnique, the temporarily employed over 200 scientists, was taken over in 1971 by Bernard Gregory and at the Collège de France in 1972 by Marcel Froissart.
He has written many popular books and also received a literary prize ( Prix Ève Delacroix 1958). He also dealt with the relationship between religion and science. In 1949 he was president of the Union catholique of scientifiques français and since 1961 a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
He was a member of the Académie des Sciences ( 1949) and the Académie française ( 1966). He has received several awards of the Academy of Sciences and the French Physical Society, so in 1942 the Prix Félix Robin. In 1957, he was President of the French Physical Society. He was a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, Commander of the Academic Palms and received the Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite.
1951 to 1971 he was Commissioner of the Commissariat à l' énergie Atomique (CEA ).
Honorary positions and passions
As a committed European, he was from 1974 to 1990 president of the organization of the French Mouvement européen ( European Movement International). 1970 to 1983 he was president of the Jeunesse Musicales de France (musical youth of France ). More from Leprince- Ringuet interests were painting and tennis.
Writings
- Les transmutation artificielles, Hermann 1933
- Les Rayons Cosmiques, les meson, Albin Michel 1949
- Félix Leprince- Ringuet with Les Inventeurs célèbres, 1952
- The atom et des hommes, Fayard 1956
- Siecle Les Grandes Découvertes you XX, Larousse 1958 with other
- Editor of the popular science series Le Bilan de la Science, 1963
- With others: La Science contemporaine. Les Sciences physiques et leurs applications, 2 volumes, Larousse 1965
- Science et Bonheur des hommes, Flammarion 1973
- Leprince Ringuet - - Le bonheur de chercher, Interview with Jean Puyo, Le Centurion, 1976
- Le Grand Merdier ou l' espoir pour demain? , Flammarion 1978
- La Potion magique, Flammarion 1981
- L' Aventure de l' Electricité, Flammarion, 1982 ( Flammarion )
- Les Pieds dans le plat, Flammarion 1985
- Noces de diamant avec l' atoms, Flammarion 1991
- Foi de physicien, Bayard 1996