15 Facts About Pierre Weiss

Pierre-Ernest Weiss was a French physicist who specialized in magnetism.

Pierre Weiss developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907.

Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him.

Alongside Auguste Piccard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917.

Pierre Weiss made several experimental discoveries that led to the development of the strongest electromagnets of the beginning of the 20th century.

Pierre Weiss worked at the universities of Rennes, Lyon, ETH Zurich where he was raised, and finally at Strasbourg.

Pierre Weiss was born in Mulhouse the 25 March 1865, where he was the first born of Emile Weiss and Ida Schlumberger.

Pierre Weiss later left to continue higher education at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where he obtained the diploma of mechanical engineer in 1887 as the first in the grade ranking of his class.

Pierre Weiss's supervisors were Jules Violle and Marcel Brillouin, and the thesis jury was comprised by Charles Friedel, Edmond Bouty and Henry Pellatt.

Pierre Weiss founded in Strasbourg an institute focused on the research of magnetism, similar to the one he founded in Zurich.

Pierre Weiss gathered in Strasbourg many of his collaborators from Zurich, such as Gabriel Foex, Robert Forrer and Edmond Bauer.

Pierre Weiss becomes his assistant in 1932 and succeeds Weiss at his position in the Chair of Physics at the University of Strasbourg in 1937.

In October 1896, Pierre Weiss married Jane Rances in Paris.

In 1939, Pierre Weiss followed his friend Jean Perrin to the University of Lyon where he died in 1940.

Louis Neel remarked the political fervour of Pierre Weiss, who supported Popular front which was badly seen in the mostly conservative population of Strasbourg of the time.