17 Facts About Jacques Solomon

Jacques Solomon was a French physicist and Marxist who played a central role in the debate over quantum mechanics in France in the 1930s and 1940s.

Jacques Solomon was killed by firing squad at Fort Mont-Valerien in 1942.

Jacques Solomon was born on 4 February 1908 in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

Jacques Solomon was a brilliant pupil at College Rollin and became an intern at the Hopitaux de Paris, then began studying physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne.

Jacques Solomon was researching theoretical physics at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in 1929 when he married Helene Langevin, daughter of Paul Langevin, a professor at the College de France.

In 1931, Jacques Solomon submitted a thesis on electrodynamics and quantum theory, which earned him recognition as one of the greatest physicists of his time.

Jacques Solomon was killed in 1942, but Bronstein was killed before the war.

Jacques Solomon was convicted by a list trial in February 1938 and executed the same day in a Leningrad prison.

Jacques Solomon taught at the Open University, and contributed to the Cahiers du Bolchevisme and to L'Humanite.

Jacques Solomon was demobilized at the end of June 1940 and after a month returned to Paris.

Georges Politzer was in touch with the clandestine PCE through Pierre Villon, and in September and October 1940 Solomon, Georges Politzer and Jacques Decour tried to contact and organize the universities.

Jacques Solomon adopted the pseudonym "Jacques Pinel", and with his wife was one of the main contributors to the Universite libre, which began to appear in November 1940 and exposed the "obscurantism" and antisemitism of the Vichy regime.

Jacques Solomon was arrested by the special brigades on 2 March 1942 in a Paris cafe where he was having a working meeting for L'Universite with Dr Jean-Claude Bauer, who was arrested.

Jacques Solomon was handed over to the Germans and executed as a hostage on 23 May 1942 at Fort Mont-Valerien on the same day as Politzer and Bauer.

In 1951, Jacques Solomon was given the posthumous title of Commandant of the Front Nationale.

Jacques Solomon was taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp, then to Ravensbruck concentration camp.

Jacques Solomon managed to survive the war, and lived on until 1995.