Louis Eugène Félix Néel ForMemRS was a French physicist born in Lyon who received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1970 for his studies of the magnetic properties of solids. Wikipedia
Born: November 22, 1904, Lyon, France
Died: November 17, 2000 (age 95 years), Brive-la-Gaillarde, France
Awards: CNRS Gold Medal, Nobel Prize in Physics, Legion of Honour, and more
Fields: Solid-state physics