Background

Abragam, Anatole was born on December 15, 1914 in Griva-Semagallen, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Simon and Anna (Maimin) Abragam.

Education

Student, Lycee Jeanson student, Sorbonne student, University of Oxford.

Career

Originally from Griva, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire, Abragam and his family emigrated to France in 1925. After being educated at the University of Paris, (1933–1936), he served in the Second World War. After the war, he resumed his studies at the École Supérieure d"Électricité and subsequently obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in 1950 under the supervision of Maurice Pryce.

In 1976, he was made an Honorary Fellow of both Merton, Magdalen, and Jesus Colleges, Oxford.

From 1960 to 1985, he worked as a professor at the Collège de France. He was awarded the Lorentz Medal in 1982.

Achievements

• Anatole Abragam has been listed as a noteworthy physicist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Nuclear Magnetism: Order and Disorder (The International Series of Monographs on Physics)

    (A study of the most interesting advances of the last ten ...)

  • Time Reversal: An Autobiography

    (Time Reversal is the autobiography of a leading figure in...)

  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetism (International Series of Monographs on Physics)

    (The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism)

  • The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism
  • The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism (The international Series of Monographs on Physics) by Anatole Abragam (1961-12-30)
  • Reflections of a Physicist by Anatole Abragam (1986-04-24)
  • Time Reversal: An Autobiography 1st edition by Abragam, Anatole (1989) Hardcover
  • Time Reversal: An Autobiography by Anatole Abragam (1989-09-07)
  • The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism (Monographs on Physics) by Anatole Abragam (1961-12-26)
  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetism (International Series of Monographs on Physics) by A. Abragam (1983-10-27)
  • Principles of Nuclear Magnetism (The International Series of Monographs on Physics) by Abragam, A. (1983) Paperback

Membership

Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences (honorary), Royal Society (foreign). Member French Physical Society (president 1967), United States National Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences.

Interests

• English and Russian literature.

Connections

Married Suzanne Lequesme in 1944.

Father:

Simon Abragam

Mother:

Anna (Maimin) Abragam

Spouse:

Suzanne Lequesme