Paul Langevin

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French physicist academic physicist scientist

Paul Langevin was a French physicist known for his pioneering work in statistical mechanics, magnetism, and the development of theories describing Brownian motion.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French physicist → academic → physicist → scientist →
almaMater	École Normale Supérieure → École Polytechnique →
associatedWith	Curie family → Marie Curie →
awardReceived	Franklin Medal → Hughes Medal →
birthDate	1872-01-23 →
birthPlace	Paris, France →
burialPlace	Panthéon, Paris →
contributedTo	special relativity debates in France →
deathDate	1946-12-19 →
deathPlace	Paris, France →
doctoralAdvisor	Jean Perrin →
educatedAt	Collège de France →
field	acoustics → magnetism → physics → statistical mechanics →
honor	remains transferred to the Panthéon in Paris →
influenced	statistical physics → stochastic processes in physics → theoretical chemistry →
influencedBy	Henri Poincaré → Pierre Curie →
knownFor	Langevin dynamics → Langevin equation → development of ultrasonic submarine detection → theory of Brownian motion → work on diamagnetism → work on paramagnetism →
memberOf	French Academy of Sciences → French Communist Party →
name	Paul Langevin →
nationality	French →
notableStudent	Frédéric Joliot-Curie → Louis de Broglie →
politicalActivity	anti-fascist activism → support for the Popular Front in France →
positionHeld	director of École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris → professor at Collège de France →
religion	atheism →
spouse	Jeanne Langevin →
theory	Langevin theory of diamagnetism → Langevin theory of paramagnetism →
workedAt	Collège de France → École de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
École Polytechnique →	hasAlumnus
Paul Langevin →	name
Langevin dynamics →	namedAfter
Radium Institute →	notableScientist