14 Facts About Paul Langevin

Paul Langevin was a French physicist who developed Langevin dynamics and the Langevin equation.

Paul Langevin was one of the founders of the Comite de vigilance des intellectuels antifascistes, an anti-fascist organization created after the 6 February 1934 far right riots.

Paul Langevin was a doctoral student of Pierre Curie and later a lover of widowed Marie Curie.

Paul Langevin is known for his two US patents with Constantin Chilowsky in 1916 and 1917 involving ultrasonic submarine detection.

Paul Langevin was born in Paris, and studied at the Ecole de Physique et Chimie and the Ecole Normale Superieure.

Paul Langevin then went to the University of Cambridge and studied in the Cavendish Laboratory under Sir JJ Thomson.

Paul Langevin returned to the Sorbonne and obtained his PhD from Pierre Curie in 1902.

Paul Langevin was elected in 1934 to the Academie des sciences.

Paul Langevin is noted for his work on paramagnetism and diamagnetism, and devised the modern interpretation of this phenomenon in terms of spins of electrons within atoms.

Paul Langevin was noted for being an outspoken opponent of Nazism, and was removed from his post by the Vichy government following the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany.

Paul Langevin was later restored to his position in 1944.

Paul Langevin died in Paris in 1946, two years after living to see the Liberation of Paris.

Paul Langevin is buried near several other prominent French scientists in the Pantheon in Paris.

Paul Langevin was on the same convoy of female political prisoners as Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier and Charlotte Delbo.