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Jacques Friedel
ForMemRS
(11 February 1921 – 27 August 2014) was a
French
physicist
,
educator
and
material
scientist
. He was the
President
of the
French Academy of Sciences
from 1992 until 1994. He worked at many
universities
in France. He also wrote more than 200
journal
articles.
Friedel was born in
Paris
. He came from a family of
academics
. He studied at
Ecole Polytechnique
from 1944 until 1946.
Friedel died on 27 August 2014 in Paris of
pneumonia
, aged 93.
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