Biography:Louis Leprince-Ringuet

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Short description: French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science


Louis Leprince-Ringuet
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Louis Leprince Ringuet (1997)
Born
Alès, France
Died23 December 2000(2000-12-23) (aged 99)
Paris, France
NationalityFrance
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
Known forCoining the hyperon
Kaon discovery
AwardsLegion of Honour (Grand officier)
Scientific career
FieldsParticle physics
Cosmic rays
InstitutionsFrench Academy of Sciences
Académie française
CERN

Louis Leprince-Ringuet (27 March 1901, in Alès – 23 December 2000, in Paris) was a French physicist, telecommunications engineer, essayist and historian of science.[1]

Leprince-Ringuet advocated strongly for the creation of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and remained its indefatigable supporter. He was vice chair (1956–69) and chair (1964–66) of CERN’s scientific policy committee.[2] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[3]

He is known for early discovery of the kaon.[4] He also coined the term hyperon in 1953.[4][5]

Honors

  • Leprince-Ringuet laboratory (fr) from CNRS and École polytechnique, and part of the French National Institutes of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3), was named in his honour.

References

  1. Jacob, Maurice (July 2001). "Obituary: Louis Leprince-Ringuet". Physics Today 54 (7): 78–79. doi:10.1063/1.1397405. Bibcode2001PhT....54g..78J. 
  2. "Louis Leprince-Ringuet 1901-2000 : A Scientist in the service of Europe". CERN Bulletin. 29 January 2001. https://cds.cern.ch/record/44713. 
  3. "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Louis+Leprince-Ringuet&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Degrange, Bernard; Fontaine, Gérard; Fleury, Patrick (2013). "Tracking Louis Leprince-Ringuet's contributions to cosmic-ray physics" (in en). Physics Today 66 (6): 8. doi:10.1063/PT.3.1989. ISSN 0031-9228. Bibcode2013PhT....66f...8D. http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1989. 
  5. Ravel, Olivier (2013). "Early cosmic ray research in France". in Ormes, Jonathan F.. Centenary Symposium 2012: Discovery of Cosmic Rays. 1516. Denver, United States: American Institute of Physics. pp. 67–71. doi:10.1063/1.4792542. ISBN 978-0-7354-1137-1. Bibcode2013AIPC.1516...67R. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00841758.