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Anatole Abragam

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Anatole Abragam · Science & Medicine

What

Physical chemist and physicist, pioneer of nuclear magnetism and magnetic resonance

When

1914, Griva, Russian Empire (now Latvia) — 2011, Paris, France

Where

France

Biography

Anatole Abragam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physical chemist and physicist, pioneer of nuclear magnetism and magnetic resonance

How & why

Abragam was a French physicist, a founder of the study of nuclear magnetism and magnetic resonance whose treatise The Principles of Nuclear Magnetism became a standard reference. He advanced dynamic nuclear polarization and the physics of spins at the CEA in Saclay. Born into a Russian-Jewish family that emigrated to France, he wrote about his Jewish origins in his memoirs.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry

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Physical chemist and physicist, pioneer of nuclear magnetism and magnetic resonance

1914

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Chemistry