Background
Daudel, Raymond was born on February 2, 1920 in Paris. Son of Georges and Jeanne (Plandé) Daudel.
academic administrator educator
Daudel, Raymond was born on February 2, 1920 in Paris. Son of Georges and Jeanne (Plandé) Daudel.
Degree in Engineering, école supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles, Paris, 1940. Doctor of Science, University Sorbonne, Paris, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Uppsala, Sweden, 1977.
Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Louvain, Belgium, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy (honorary), University Barcelona, Spain, 1984.
Trained as a physicist, he was an assistant to Irène Joliot-Curie at the Radium Institute. Daudel spent almost the entirety of his career as professor at the Sorbonne and director of a laboratory of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research). He is quoted as saying that the latter "was much better because the National Center for Scientific Research was very rich".
This allowed Daudel to attract many co-workers from elsewhere in France and internationally.
Raymond Daudel was Officier de la Légion d"honneur and Officier de l"Ordre National du Mérite. He served as President of the European Academy of Arts Sciences and Humanities, in Paris, France.
Daudel was a founding member and Honorary President of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. An author as well as an academic, Raymond Daudel authored several books, including Quantum chemistry, originally with R. Lefebyre and C. Moser in 1959 (Interscience Publishers, Incorporated, New York) and later with G. Leroy, Doctorate. Peeters, and M. Sana, published by Wiley in 1983.
He was responsible for the organization of the first International Congresses in Quantum Chemistry, held in Menton, France in 1973.
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French Academy of Sciences. International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Married Pascaline Salzedo, June 30, 1944 (deceased 1976). Children: Olivier, Sylvain.
