Background
Brillouin, Leon Nicholas was born on August 7, 1889 in Sevres, France. Son of Marcel and Charlotte (Mascart) Brillouin.
Brillouin, Leon Nicholas was born on August 7, 1889 in Sevres, France. Son of Marcel and Charlotte (Mascart) Brillouin.
Student of University Munich, 1913. Doctor of Philosophy, University Paris, 1920.
Mistress Gilbert Boris). Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized, 1949. Professor U. Paris (Institut World World War II Poincare, chair theoretical physics), 1928-1932.
Professor College de France, Paris, 1932-1948.
General director French National Broadcasting System, July 1939-January 1941. Visiting professor, University of Wisconsin, 1928.
University of Michigan, summer 1929. Professor, University of Wisconsin, 1941-1942, Brown University, 1942-1943.
Defense research work, Columbia (applied mathematics group), 1943-1945.
Research lecturer Cruft Laboratory, Harvard University, 1946, Gordon McKay professor applied mathematics, 1947-1949. Director electronics education, International Business Machines Corporation, New York City, 1949. Radio engineer rank of lieutenant, French Army, 1914-1949.
Honorary fellow Indian Academy of Sciences, India, 1938.
Member of New York Academy Science Author. Louisiana theorie des quanta et l’atome de Bohr, 1923, Les Mesures en haute frequence, 1923.
Selected papers on Wave-mechanics, 1928. L’atome de Bohr, 1930.
Les statisiques quantiques, 1939.
Quantenstatistik, 1931. (also a Russian translation). Notion elementaires de Mathematiques, 1935.
Les Tenseurs en Mecanique, 1938, 1946.
Wave propagation, 1946. Collector modern French paintings.
Home: New York, New New York
Member of New York Academy Science.
Married Stephanie Prussak, December 5, 1912.