Léon Nicolas Brillouin (French: [leɔ̃ nikɔla bʁijwɛ̃]; August 7, 1889 – October 4, 1969) was a French physicist. He made contributions to quantum mechanics...

In mathematics and solid state physics, the first Brillouin zone (named after Léon Brillouin) is a uniquely defined primitive cell in reciprocal space...

In electromagnetism, Brillouin scattering (also known as Brillouin light scattering or BLS), named after Léon Brillouin, refers to the interaction of light...

These functions are named after French physicists Paul Langevin and Léon Brillouin who contributed to the microscopic understanding of magnetic properties...

his 1944 popular-science book What is Life? Later, French physicist Léon Brillouin shortened the phrase to néguentropie (negentropy). In 1974, Albert Szent-Györgyi...

Brillouin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Marcel Brillouin (1854–1948), French physicist Léon Brillouin (1889–1969), French physicist...

of the tides. Brillouin died in Paris (16 June 1948). His son Léon Brillouin, also had a prominent career in physics. Marcel Brillouin (1904). Propagation...

named after physicists Gregor Wentzel, Hendrik Anthony Kramers, and Léon Brillouin, who all developed it in 1926. In 1923, mathematician Harold Jeffreys...

theoretically described by physicists such as Arnold Sommerfeld and Léon Brillouin. The previous definition of phase velocity has been demonstrated for...

he earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1950. His advisor was initially Léon Brillouin but he finished the thesis under the supervision of Wendell H. Furry...

The Einstein–Brillouin–Keller (EBK) method is a semiclassical technique (named after Albert Einstein, Léon Brillouin, and Joseph B. Keller) used to compute...

In quantum chemistry, Brillouin's theorem, proposed by the French physicist Léon Brillouin in 1934, relates to Hartree–Fock wavefunctions. Hartree–Fock...

Triple-axis spectrometry (TAS, three axis spectroscopy) is a technique used in conjunction with inelastic neutron scattering. The instrument is referred...

Bernoulli's principle is of critical use in aerodynamics. According to Léon Brillouin, the principle of superposition was first stated by Daniel Bernoulli...

quantum mechanics. Wentzel, Hendrik Kramers, and Léon Brillouin developed the Wentzel–Kramers–Brillouin approximation in 1926. In his early years, he contributed...

entropy has been related by physicist Léon Brillouin to a concept sometimes called negentropy. In 1953, Brillouin derived a general equation stating that...

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authors, including Erwin Schrödinger (in his book What is Life?) and Léon Brillouin. To a fair approximation, living organisms may be considered as examples...

case of multiple ratchets, showing a link with Parrondo's paradox. Léon Brillouin in 1950 discussed an electrical circuit analogue that uses a rectifier...

solution to a nonlinear system are analyzed by linearization. According to Léon Brillouin, the principle of superposition was first stated by Daniel Bernoulli...

C. Stückelberg, Heinrich Welker, Gregor Wentzel, Alfred Landé, and Léon Brillouin became famous in their own right. Three of Sommerfeld's postdoctoral...

to this question was suggested in 1929 by Leó Szilárd, and later by Léon Brillouin. Szilárd pointed out that a real-life Maxwell's demon would need to...

Brasselet received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2016. In 2022 she won the Léon Brillouin grand prize of the French Optical Society (La Société Française d'Optique)...

August 1 – Walter Gerlach (died 1979), German physicist. August 7 – Léon Brillouin (died 1969), French physicist. August 11 – Ross T. McIntire (died 1960)...

of the fusor to be unfocused. In 1945, Columbia University professor Léon Brillouin, suggested that there was a limit to how many electrons one could pack...

confirmed the germ theory of disease Édouard Branly (1865) Léon Brillouin Marcel Brillouin (1878) Monique Combescure Hubert Curien (1945) Thomas Fink...

dealing with purely technical issues. In particular, together with Léon Brillouin and brother Maurice, he participated in establishing wireless communications...

Solvay Conferences, and they consulted with Léon Brillouin, who had some experience in that area. In turn, Brillouin suggested consulting Wolfgang Pauli, the...

dispersion. Sommerfeld's work was expanded in the following years by Léon Brillouin, who applied the saddle point approximation to compute the integrals...

Research Centre 30 kW and 60MW 1960 ORPHEE France Saclay Laboratoire Léon Brillouin 14 MW 1980 FRM II Germany Garching Technical University of Munich 20...