Jacques Friedel
Jacques Friedel ForMemRS was a French physicist and material scientist.
Education
Friedel attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He studied at the École Polytechnique from 1944 to 1946, and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris from 1946 to 1948. He graduated from the University of Paris with a licence ès sciences degree in 1948, then studied at the Metallurgy Laboratory of the School of Mines with Charles Crussard. He graduated from the University of Bristol with a PhD in 1952, where he studied with Nevill Francis Mott, and a Doctorat d'Etat in Paris in 1954.Career
He was assistant professor at Paris-Sorbonne University in 1956, then full professor of Solid State Physics at the University of Paris-Sud where he co-founded the Laboratory of Solid State Physics. He authored more than 200 journal articles.He was the president of the Société française de physique, the European Physical Society, and the French Academy of Sciences from 1992 to 1994.